A lot of animals who live on the reefcamouflagethemselves to blend amongst the coral, either to stay safe from other animals or to hide as they hunt. Plantsalso live on reefs.Algaelive inside soft coral, using sunlight to provide food and help the coral grow. In other areas,sea grassprov...
This paper is intended to explore the potential of using WorldView-2 (WV2) satellite images for coral reef bottom types classification. The research area for this study is around Ganquan Island in the South China Sea. Sunny sky and cloudless WV2 satellite imagery is selected to reduce ...
In the mid-2010s, China started constructing islands upon reefs in the South China Sea in the Reed Bank region to increase its dominion over the Spratley Islands. Oil and natural gas deposits, as well as Chinese military outposts, can be found on this broad tablemount....
Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving these past distributions remain uncertain. Here, we test the role of cli
However, the current regional scale hard coral distribution of geomorphic and ecological zones, essential for reefs management in the context of global warming and ocean acidification, is not well documented. We analyzed data from field surveys, Landsat-8 and GF-1 images to map the distribution ...
Guowei Zhou1,2,3, Tao Yuan2, Weipeng Zhang1, Renmao Tian1, Hui Huang2,3 & Pei-Yuan Qian1 With the increase in sea surface temperature (SST), scleractinian corals are exposed to bleaching threats but may possess certain flexibilities in terms of their associations with symbioti...
We note that we have also conducted a noise effect study to test the statistical significance of the DIC results presented above. Although correlation functions act to normalize images during image processing, quantification of noise effects provide a further verification of the observed patterns42. T...
A survey of images in the literature of modern shapes of cryptochirid domiciles shows that three basic forms can be identified: crescentic pits, circular to oval pits and true galls or chambers (seeSupplementary Table S1). We add the domicile shape of four species from which the pit shape ...
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These lessons are valuable for anyone working within a large conservation organization, and especially those who work on, or are interested in, local or community-based projects. The author conjured up vibrant and beautiful images in my mind of the famous blue coral, the bright blue waters and...