The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands ...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region’s coral trout fishery catch. The Great Barrier Reef is protected ...

Plants live under various biotic and abiotic stress conditions ... MAPK cascades respond to various environmental stress factors by modulating associated gene expression, influencing plant hormone ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

"229 COTS have been culled from Guam's reefs over the course of this project, representing over 2,000 (square meters) of coral cover saved from COTS predation per year." Climate factors play a ...

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Abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical elements in the environment, which affect individual organisms as well as ecosystems. Examples are UV, IR and visible light, radiation ...

Jennifer Mallon receives funding from US-UK Fulbright Commission, Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, University of Glasgow Early Career Mobility Award and the Link Foundation. Adrian ...

Biotic factors tend to be more dynamic, as living organisms grow, reproduce and evolve over time. Abiotic factors create the backdrop that makes life possible. Abiotic factors provide relatively ...

Investing in natural infrastructure by restoring coral reefs in Florida and Puerto Rico can save millions of dollars by mitigating flooding damage, according to a study by a U.S. Geological Survey ...

Florida Coral Rescue Center biologist Justin Zimmerman explains why coral reefs are important to Florida's economy and how they protect the coastline. Marine scientists tracked coral colonies in a ...

The eDNA identified more environmental factors associated with seasonal changes in zooplankton communities than microscopy, including dissolved oxygen (DO), nephelometric turbidity unit (NTU), ammonia ...