23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs from fish feeding, looking for mates, or defending their territories, underscored by the persistent crackling of snapping ...

The latest instalment of the Mesoamerican Reef Report Card, a periodic health assessment, finds that in 2024, the worst coral bleaching ... to an increase in fish populations due to effective ...

then populated them with eight of the most common Hawaiian coral species and a menagerie of reef-dwelling creatures, from microbes and algae to invertebrates and fish. The coral species under ...

we included the entire complement of reef species from microbes, to algae, invertebrates, and fish, under realistic conditions they would experience in nature,” said Rob Toonen, a marine scientist at ...

The Culebra Reef Garden project ... creating a network of coral nurseries aimed at promoting ecological restoration. Over the past five years, the project has established more than 110 coral nurseries ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

More information: Brad Martin et al, Fishing for more than shellfish: a systematic review of fish community monitoring of shellfish reefs, Restoration Ecology (2024).DOI: 10.1111/rec.14323 R. M ...

Like humans, coral reefs rely on nutrients in the environment surrounding them. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been lab testing nutrient-infused tiles to determine ...

It is home to hundreds of corals, more than 1,600 species of fish ... the coral can eventually turn white and die. This year had already been confirmed as the fifth mass bleaching on the reef ...

A healthy Acropora coral reef in Palau, western Pacific Ocean. Credit: Liam Lachs Without swift and substantial cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions, coral adaptation to rising ocean temperatures ...

According to Beyond Coral, however, there simply aren't enough skilled human workers to cultivate the millions of corals that will be required to repopulate all of the planet's decimated reefs.

Some corals develop a hard outer skeleton, and over time, these skeletons fuse to create vast coral reefs, which serve as vital habitats for countless fish and other marine species. Coral reefs are ...