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Month: April 2008

Coral

Deep-sea corals have complex microbial assemblages, just like shallow corals

Peter Etnoyer April 29, 2008 Christina Kellogg

This is the second in a series of five referenced articles about shared characteristics between deep and shallow water corals Special guest post by Christina…

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Global hotspots of deep coral diversity

Peter Etnoyer April 28, 2008 coral weekdiversityScleractinia

One of the central questions in marine biogeography asks “why are there more species of fish and coral in the Indo-Pacific than anywhere else in the world?”

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Coral Pictures and Movies Seamount

Deep Coral Grove Video

Dr. M April 28, 2008

Bubblegum trees and red tree coral from Georges Bank Nova Scotia.

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Deep-sea corals are rich and beautiful, like their shallow tropical counterparts

Peter Etnoyer April 28, 2008

This is first in a series of five referenced articles about shared characteristics in deep-sea and shallow-water corals.

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Coral Pictures and Movies

Deep and Stony

Dr. M April 27, 2008

A yellow stony coral courtesy “Mountains in the Sea” scientific party, NOAA, and the Institute for Exploration via Oceanus

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Coral Social Sciences

Coral References In the Bible

Dr. M April 27, 2008

Given the comments on the last post, I thought it time to give almost-a-religion-major Craig a work out. The origin of the word coral is…

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History of the word coral

Kevin Zelnio April 27, 2008

Coral is a polyphyletic term for polypoid animals in the cnidarian classes Anthozoa and Hydrozoa that secrete either 1) a black, horn like proteinaceous axis…

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Welcome to Coral Week

Peter Etnoyer April 27, 2008

Deep corals hold secrets just like the shallow ones. They have a lot in common, actually. We’ll write about that over the next 7 days during Coral Week at Deep Sea News.

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Conservation & Environment Industry & Government

North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9

Kevin Zelnio April 26, 2008

Continuing the series from VBS.tv‘s TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. They finally actually do something, but they are still just as annoying. Yet,…

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Conservation & Environment Industry & Government

North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9

Kevin Zelnio April 26, 2008

Continuing the series from VBS.tv‘s TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. They finally actually do something, but they are still just as annoying. Yet,…

View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9

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