Tropical seaweeds in the genus Halimeda reduce losses to grazing by capitalizing on diel patterns of herbivore activity. These seaweeds produce new, more herbivore-susceptible growth at night when ...
The Caribbean King Crab might be the secret to wiping out a killer algae invasion on coral reefs, according to a new study. Reefs provide many benefits to marine life and to people, yet climate change ...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's great wonders, but scientists have been surprised to find something equally spectacular lurking behind it. A team from James Cook University, the ...
Great Barrier Reef home to giant doughnut-shaped structures with unique animal and plant communities
Giant doughnut-shaped limestone mounds sitting in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, called Halimeda bioherms, have been building up on the seafloor off the Australian coast since the last ice age.
Mardi McNeil has previously received funding from the National Geographic Society, the NSW Foundation for Parks and Wildlife, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for research on the ...
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