Amid rising ocean temperatures and mounting environmental threats, a surprising ally has emerged for the beleaguered corals ...

For their study, Renzi and colleagues collected samples of Acropora aspera, a type of branching coral, from a designated research area in Australia's Great Barrier Reef during a heat wave.

Many colonies of table-shaped corals or branch-shaped Acropora corals were found to have perished. The bleaching was likely caused by high ocean temperatures. The average temperature was 30.2 ...

Coming a close second is the seaweed collection comprising red seaweed of the Cryptonemia crenulata species, and the branched Coelarthrum opuntia, among the endangered corals of the Acropora genus.

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The Chemical & Physical Ecology Program addresses both research and applied science questions on the impacts and interactions of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica) and physical parameters ...