WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Fisheries Service says it will increase its protection of elkhorn and staghorn corals in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
... delicate operation at sea, healthy staghorn coral were transplanted Friday to a threatened reef off ... at Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center and its internal National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI ...
... fragments from two species: staghorn coral--which is listed as threatened under the United States Endangered ... , who added that one of the collection sites was slated for development, and the corals there would have died anyway. The researchers are splitting ...
... fishing and marine debris." The conditions of U.S. coral reefs have been declining for several decades according to the report ... report was released in 2005, two coral species -- Elkhorn and Staghorn corals --- have become the first ...
... be unable to adapt to changing conditions," Zoe says. "When we studied some particularly rare species of Acropora (staghorn corals), which you might expect to be highly ...
... including Acropora cervicornis, the well known "staghorn coral." The occurrences of Isopora reported in this study ... abundant modern Caribbean species of elkhorn and staghorn corals Acropora (A. cervicornis and A. palmate), often ...
... flattening. The first occurred when a widespread disease killed about 90 per cent of the Elkhorn and Staghorn corals in the late 1970s. The second period ...
... , hurricanes, pollution, and overfishing. Restoring threatened staghorn coral, the damsels' favorite homestead, will take ... by hurricanes and other environmental insults decimated populations of staghorn coral to the point that it is now listed as threatened ...
Young staghorn coral that fluoresce redder are less likely to settle and develop into coral polyps ... crossed different color morphs of the small staghorn coral, Acropora millepora, and exposed the offspring ...
... that live symbiotically within every individual coral polyp. The algae photosynthesize sunlight into energy ... 's left is a ghostly white. Ghost Coral: Bleached staghorn coral in Indonesia's Banda Sea ...
... scientists today announced they have sequenced the genome of the staghorn coral Acropora millepora, a major component ... , and is an important milestone in Australian biotechnology and in the study of coral reefs, said the researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
... disease killed virtually all the then-dominant staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) in the study area ... , is that -- as evidenced by radiocarbon-dating of reef cores -- staghorn coral had dominated the reefs for nearly 4 ...
Nova Southeastern University President George L. Hanbury II went diving with his student researchers to inspect an offshore university-run nursery of threatened staghorn corals.
... to grow at higher temperatures (or water clarity) and another variant at lower. A similar story was found for staghorn coral -- SNP in genes involved in detoxification ...
