When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

Oxygen levels on coral reefs naturally fluctuate in a daily cycle, with dissolved oxygen peaking around noon and gradually falling as the light fades. At night when photosynthesis stops, corals ...

Oxygen levels on coral reefs naturally fluctuate in a daily cycle, with dissolved oxygen peaking around noon and gradually falling as the light fades. At night when photosynthesis stops ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center partnered with Erinn Muller, a research representative on Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, to host a webinar on Jan. 21 highlighting how scientists ...

Photosystem II, a crucial protein complex in photosynthesis, is prone to photodamage, especially under high light conditions. Recent findings reveal that its repair involves both phosphorylation ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with fast currents, scientists ... Coral Reef Nightlife ...

With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate. Trilobites With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move ...

Daniel Wangpraseurt is a marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He received his bachelor’s ...

Light exposure plays a key role in the survival of corals, influencing photosynthesis and their growth and health. Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia used high ...

We describe the general background and the recent advances in research on underwater photosynthesis of leaf segments, whole communities, and plant dominated aquatic ecosystems and present contemporary ...

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area on a reef and stay there indefinitely. But not all coral species want ...