I learned early on to appreciate nature in all its raw beauty and complexity. Those contrasting experiences ignited my passion for art and the ocean’s mystery, inspiring me to create designs that protect and c
Yet, nearly 100years later, we are no closer to having a threshold that can be applied in studies of the impacts of freshwater runoff on coral communities. We present an empirically derived salinity threshold for sensitive Acropora species from the Keppel Islands in the southern inshore Great ...
Why are coral reefs in shallow water? Why is physical oceanography important? Why is the ocean warming because of climate change? Why do surface waves break along the shore? Why are jellyfish not affected by ocean acidification? How does freezing and evaporation affect salinity?
Coral Reefs 33 : 169–180.Pretet C., Reynaud S., Ferrier-Page`s C., Gattuso J.-P., Kamber B. S. and Samankassou E. (2014) Effect of salinity on the skeletal chemistry of cultured scleractinian zooxanthellate corals: Cd/ Ca ratio as a potential proxy for salinity reconstruction. ...
How do changes in salinity affect marine organisms? Does overfishing affect coral reefs? How are coral reefs affected by ocean acidification? How does regional climate affect ocean salinity? How does ocean acidification affect adult marine animals?
G. fascicularis fragments were the only ones that withstood the synergistic effects of high temperature and low salinity and are likely to become dominant through asexual reproduction in the Indo-Pacific coral reefs in a warmer ocean, especially in coastal areas prone to low salinity episodes....
The recruitment of plant microbiomes is thought to be governed by a combination of random processes (Hubbell, 2001) and selective properties related to the niche (Peterson et al., 2011), analogous to the competitive lottery model proposed for the coloniza- tion of coral reefs (Sale, 1979). ...
in coral reef and leads to osmotic stress for reef-associated stenohaline fish. However, the physiological responses to salinity stress in reef-associated fish were not examined substantially. With this regard, the physiological parameters and the responses of protein quality control (PQC) and osmo...
The salinity of seawater is higher in subtropical regions than at the equator because of what? What is the difference between an ocean and a sea? What is relative sea level? How big is the Coral Sea? What is the average temperature in coral reefs?
Coral reefs also contains large amount of salts. Also some salt leave the ocean through the process of evaporation. As salt escape into the atmosphere, they go into the creation of rain drops. This is why the coast received more rain than land area. You see, more salt existence in the ...