Nature

What are coral atolls made of?

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Mongabay

The search for survivors in a post-nuclear reefscape

The United States tested its largest thermonuclear bomb in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, generating radioactive fallout downwind, including over remote Rongelap Atoll. We surveyed ...
JSTOR Daily

Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics in an atoll reef system and their influence on coral cover

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 6 (2016), pp. 2191-2206 (16 pages) We present results of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of an atoll system and their effect on coral cover based on field ...
Science Daily

Catastrophic construction: Storms can build reef islands in atoll regions

Many coral reef islands, or atolls, are created by water moving sand and gravel, piling it up into consecutive ridged layers. However, new research has uncovered a different type of island ...
JSTOR Daily

Quantifying patterns of fish herbivory on Palmyra Atoll (USA), an uninhabited predator-dominated central Pacific coral reef

ABSTRACT: On many coral reefs, herbivorous fish play an essential role in regulating algal growth and influencing the outcome of coral–algal competition. Working on a remote predator-dominated coral ...
Science Daily

Insidious coral killer invading Palmyra Atoll reef

The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...
EurekAlert!

Study: Darwin's theory about coral reef atolls is fatally flawed

HOUSTON - (Oct. 12, 2020) - Marine geologist and oceanographer André Droxler knows Charles Darwin's theory about atolls is incorrect. But Droxler, who's studied coral reefs for more than 40 years, ...
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Another way to check the health of a coral reef: Study the microbes in the seawater

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine pollution. It lives throughout the sunlit layer of tropical oceans and, ...
Newsweek

Mystery Algae of No Known Origin Discovered on Hawaii Coral Reef

A new species of algae, the origin of which is unknown, has been discovered in Hawaii, smothering coral reefs and posing a threat to ocean ecosystems in the region, scientists have warned. The algae, ...
The Conversation

Coastal flooding could save atoll islands from rising seas – but only if their reefs remain healthy

Gerd Masselink received funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund for this research. Paul Simon Kench receives funding from: Catalyst Fund: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, NZ ...
Forbes

Black Reef Risk: How Sunken Metal Shipwrecks Attract Coral Destroying Invasive Species

Such decisions should not be taken lightly, and there is a growing amount of scientific research that reveal a lot of unintended consequences from well intended actions in different parts of the world ...
Nature

What are coral atolls made of?

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