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Patterns of ocean currents and weather determine the success or failure of recruitment from one spawning event to another in Micronesian islands.
Great Barrier Reef home to giant doughnut-shaped structures with unique animal and plant communities Posted MonMonday 1 updated TueTuesday 2 The fauna and flora communities on the Halimeda reefs are unique, new research has found. ( Print text only Cancel Giant doughnut-shaped limestone mounds sitting in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, called Halimeda bioherms, have been building up on the seafloor off the Australian coast since the last ice age. Key points: The doughnut-shaped "bioherms" are at least 10,000 years old, but scientists aren't sure how they get their shape Researchers found...
PROJECT TO PROTECT GUAM CORAL Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/08/2001 - 00:00 By Scott Radway Pacific Daily News HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (August 7, 2001 – Pacific Daily News)---As oceanographer Eric Wolanski, clad in scuba gear, descended into Fouha Bay in Umatac, he noticed something seriously wrong: He couldn't hear anything but his breathing. "The reef makes no sound anymore," said Wolanski, a researcher from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. When a reef is healthy, fish and shrimp are plentiful and when they eat, their mouths make a snapping sound, Wolanski said. "There s...