In addition, turbidity reduces light penetration, which restricts coral growth. High sedimentation rates can also bury or smother these sessile animals. While corals gain some nutrition from their ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...

A study led by the University of Bremen suggests that on algae-dominated coral reefs, it is not the algae but the corals ...

and scientists surveyed coral growth on the spiders and nearby rubble from 2014 to 2017. Although coral growth on the spiders rarely reached the amount seen at a nearby undamaged site, the amount ...

When ocean acidity increases, the amount of ions and salts corals need to form calcium carbonate are reduced, leading to ...

Dodge, R. E. & Vaisrys, J. R. Coral populations and growth patterns: Responses to sedimentation and turbidity associated with dredging. Journal of Marine Research 35, 715-730 (1977). Glynn ...

Feary likened the coral growth on new structures to the flush of small plants that grow after a forest has cleared. "When the breakwaters are developed there is a coral community that grows on ...