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Category: Coral

Coral Organisms Reviews

Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals

Peter Etnoyer February 12, 2009 coral reefindonesiakidsNational GeographicOctocoralred seascuba divingseahorsevideo

It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…

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Conservation & Environment Coral

Protection Sought For Deep Water Carolinian Reefs

Kevin Zelnio February 4, 2009 Alex RogersCape FearCape LookoutCoralLophelia pertusaMarine Protected AreaNorth CarolinaSouth AtlanticSouth-Eastern USSteve Ross

Forwarded this article from yesterday’s Guardian by a colleague. To preserve the reefs, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, a federal panel that regulates recreational…

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Coral New Research Organisms Scientist! Seamount

Naming a new species is tricky business

Peter Etnoyer January 22, 2009 bamboo coraldeep seaisidellaisidella tentaculumSeamount

The bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum finally rolled of the presses over the holidays. I can finally speak the name aloud. DSN debuted the video of…

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Coral

Is it all over for corals?

Peter Etnoyer July 12, 2008 climate changeCoralextinction

A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the “the human meteor”.

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Coral

Deep Water Corals Invade!

Dr. M June 19, 2008

Sometimes research comes about that really makes my whole week. This time it is a little diddy from Lindner et al. in PLoS. We could…

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Coral Opinion & Editorial Organisms

I guess sea cucumbers are all right

Dr. M May 27, 2008

Because of my previous trumpeting many of you may believe I scoff at anything non-mollusca. Untrue! I say! Indeed, I am friend of all invertebrate.…

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Coral

One day course in reef ecology

Peter Etnoyer May 20, 2008

Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms. A new online seminar on coral reef futures sponsored by the…

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Coral

Signing off on Coral Week

Peter Etnoyer May 3, 2008

Well, all good things must come to an end, so this is it for Coral Week. I wanted to finish things on a high note…

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Coral

The naked coral hypothesis: a cause for optimism?

Peter Etnoyer May 3, 2008

There remains a cause for optimism. Shallow-water corals have weathered a host of insults over the last 18,000 years. The Atomic Age is just one…

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Coral

Will bottom trawls have negative effects on deep-sea corals?

Peter Etnoyer May 3, 2008

This is the fifth of five articles about the shared characteristics of shallow and deep-water corals. It’s far from complete, I’m afraid. Deep corals are…

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