We have analyzed indicators of reef health and resilience and assessed the roles parrotfish play in controlling seaweed, promoting coral growth and eroding reefs. While it is clear that parrotfish ...

What threatens coral reefs today? One culprit is overfishing, which wipes out a lot of herbivores. As a result, seaweed grows and smothers the corals. The second is declining water quality ...

Coral reefs are dying, but there’s a tiny bit of good news about what happens when they’re gone The seaweed that often takes over reefs may at least help the food systems that count on the ...

Wild coral makes up some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, supporting thousands of species in the process, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

Carbon cycle and reef resilience Combined ... microbes preferred to use substances from stony corals or seaweed. "We observed that coral and algae can selectively facilitate the growth of specific ...

Excessive seaweed growth on reefs can block sunlight from corals’ surfaces, release chemicals that affect coral survival, slow the corals’ growth and make it harder for new corals to establish ...

We have analyzed indicators of reef health and resilience and assessed the roles parrotfish play in controlling seaweed, promoting coral growth and eroding reefs. While it is clear that parrotfish ...

We have analyzed indicators of reef health and resilience and assessed the roles parrotfish play in controlling seaweed, promoting coral growth and eroding reefs. While it is clear that parrotfish are ...