Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs from fish ...

NHA TRANG, Vietnam (AP) — The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam's Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The ...

Overfishing of sharks is linked to coral reef destruction. Without sharks, smaller fish stop eating coral-eating starfish.

The favourable conditions are due, I believe, to the action of currents on coral growth. I noticed at Diego Garcia, and Dr. Hickson has made similar observations in the reefs near North Celebes ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a ...

"Coral reefs house one-third of all marine species ... That said, the study emphasizes that corralling zooplankton with this human-made tool doesn't seem to harm the environment or interrupt ...

The findings support the idea that positive species interactions can buffer coral reefs from multiple environmental threats. Corals are what ecologists call "foundation species," meaning that they ...