The world's coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are increasingly being threatened, mostly because of human activities. A group of environmental organizations published a report about it. For the first time, it also considered the effect of climate change on these threatened sea organisms. Jane Lubchenco is ...
Dredging stirs up sediments and alters tidal flows, damaging reefs and smothering corals. Global climate change could affect all of these environmental factors, either directly or indirect- ly, by increasing average water temperatures, increasing storm runoff into coastal waters, and raising sea levels...
(藻类) upon which corals(珊瑚虫) depend to leave. That would drain the coral reefs of colour and make the structure more easily broken. These bleaching events can be temporary if waters cool, but the more frequent they are and the longer they last, the greater the risk of irreparable ...
live associated with coral reefs. So perhaps it is not too surprising that even more recently an analysis was done that suggests that one third of all coral species are actually at risk of extinction. This makes corals the most endangered animal on the planet, even more endangered than frogs...
-most site, has been observed in thermally stressedAcroporaspecies suggesting a potential role of this taxa in holobiont stress response63. The bacterial ordersPseudomonadalesandCellvibrionales(containing the family Cellvibrionaceae), which were abundant in the Dry Tortugas and Sombrero Reef corals ...
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Microbes are found on all eukaryotic organisms, from insects to corals, frogs, birds and bears. Beginning at birth, microbes colonise many niches on and within the host body, with each colonised location displaying a unique assemblage of microbial species and functions. Areas of the body which ...
The alpha-proteobacterium “Ca. Aquarickettsia rohweri” is a recently discovered bacterial symbiont of many aquatic hosts from around the world [1]. This symbiosis, e.g., a persistent association between two organisms, occurs in reef-building corals (scleractinians), as well as other cnidarians...
The June 2012 version of the IUCN Red List included 19,817 threatened species: 41% of amphibians, 33% of reef-building corals, 25% of mammals, 13% of birds, and 30% of conifers – an indication of the grave threat to species. Data Deficient species are those for which ...
Sekisei Lagoon is the largest coral reef area in Japan covering an area of almost 15km脳20km. Being situated upstream of Kuroshio Current, coral reefs in this area could supply larvae to downstream such as the Ryukyu Archipelago, facilitating high biodiversity. To conserve corals in such an ...