and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies can be either dieocious or hermaphroditic and can also reproduce asexually through fragmentation and ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

He used a long pole to leap along the coral reef edge. Darwin’s specimen of Porites coral. This group of corals takes on many forms and its skeleton is a favourite habitat for Christmas tree worms, ...

Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals ...