The Pacific Ocean (太平洋) is the largest of the world’s four oceans. The Coral Sea (珊瑚海) is in the Pacific Ocean and is home to one of nature’s greatest wonders, the Great Barrier Reef (大堡礁). And the reef is now in danger. It is the world’s largest coral reef system...
慢速美语 - 科学新闻 New Kind of Seaweed Is Killing Coral in the Pacific Ocean 一种新型海藻正在杀死太平洋的珊瑚 原文:(文末有词汇总结哦) Scientists say a recently discovered kind of seaweed plant is killing large numbers of very small but important ocean animals called corals. ...
Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often dominated by key marine symbionts of thefamily. The factors controlling their distribution and their functional diversity remain, however, poorly known. Here, we study the ecology ofat an ocean basin-scale by ...
Fifty-five different species of corals in the Pacific Ocean were currently considered either threatened or endangered species due to the warming of the ocean water and ocean acidification being the primary mechanisms for their dying. This implies that climate change impacts are among the largest conce...
In this work we assess the diversity of the Pacific Ocean reef microbiome. To do so, we designed a systematic basin-scale sampling strategy that targeted 3 types of organisms, which fulfil crucial ecological roles on coral reefs: corals, fish, and plankton31,32. We conducted an unprecedented ...
Henderson Island is a coral island raised above the South Pacific Ocean. No people live on it. The island is 9.6 kilometers long and 5.1 kilometers wide. It has an area of 37.3 km2. Henderson Island became a World Heritage Site in 1988 because of its bird life. All the four kinds of...
Area of the Coral Triangle (CT), namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, comprises 5.7 million km2of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most bio-diverse marine eco-regions on the planet, as well as a global hotspot for seagrass species...
The Great Barrier Reef in the Pacific Ocean is the largest coral reef in the world.E. For us, it is very important to know about the health of the Great Barrier Reef.F. So when corals die off, it's not just about the corals.G. Climate change remains the greatest challenge to the ...
T hen in 2015, Julia Baum, a marineecologist at the University of Victoria, began a survey of two common species: brain and star coral around Kiritimati in the central Pacific Ocean. T hey checked the condition of the coral as the heat wave struck and disappeared.Starting in May 2015, ...
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. All his novels are, in his own words, "adventure stories for young folks", and The Coral Island is no exception.One of the first works of juvenil