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Innovative Tagging Technique May Help Researchers Better Protect Fish Stocks
August 11, 2007 — Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fished. But even as nations begin to set aside protected ... > full story -
What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History Of Earth
August 9, 2007 — Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes, according to ... > full story -
Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Disappearing More Rapidly Than Expected
August 8, 2007 — Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faster than previously thought, researchers have found. Nearly 600 square miles of reef have disappeared per year since the late 1960s, twice ... > full story -
Waters Off Washington State Only Second Place In World Where Glass Sponge Reefs Found
July 30, 2007 — Scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor 30 miles off the coast of Washington. The species of glass sponges capable of building reefs were thought extinct ... > full story -
Oil Spill Clean-Up Agents Threaten Coral Reefs
July 30, 2007 — In a setback for efforts to protect endangered coral reefs from oil spills, researchers report that oil dispersants -- the best tool for treating oil spills in tropical areas --are significantly more ... > full story -
Reef Corals: How To Structure A Complex Body Plan
July 25, 2007 — Phenotypic flexibility enables multicellular organisms to adjust morphologies to variable environmental challenges. Such plastic variations are also documented in reef corals. Coral colonies are made ... > full story -
Coral Reef Fish Need Decades Or Longer To Recover
July 12, 2007 — In the longest running study on how fish populations in coral reef systems recover from heavy exploitation, researchers have found that the fish can recover, but they need lots of time -- decades in ... > full story -
Sundried Tide: Silent, Natural Disaster
July 4, 2007 — In a paper published in scientific journal Marine Biology, Dr. Ken Anthony and Dr. Ailsa Kerswell, of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland and James ... > full story -
How Fish Punish 'Queue Jumpers'
June 26, 2007 — Fish use the threat of punishment to keep would-be jumpers in the mating queue firmly in line and the social order stable, a new study led by Australian marine scientists has found. Their discovery ... > full story -
Color Pattern Spurs Speciation In Tropical Fish
June 12, 2007 — A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef fish species can drive its evolution into many distinct species. The researchers looked at feeding and ... > full story
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