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Mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago
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Such coral reefs and their associated communities have been recently defined as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). Several types of MCEs are found in ...
Assessing Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Risk in Southern Washington
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Sampling is underway as the University of Washington Tacoma, Washington Department of Health, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife work ...
Can Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems Serve as Lifeboats for Shallow Reefs ...
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On May 24, 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme released a new report on mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) during a coral reef media ...
Help Scientists Restore Gulf of Mexico Habitats with Click-a-Coral
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Photo of deep-sea reef community in Gulf of Mexico, collected as part of the research team’s restoration activities, 2022. Credit: NOAA. Vital ...
Macroalgae Aquaculture: Biofuel Production and Reducing Entanglement ...
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DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) hosted its 5th annual Ocean Week event in Alexandria (VA) in January, where a wide range of ...
Understanding Coral Ecosystem Connectivity in the Gulf of Mexico from ...
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We investigated the role that the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pulley Ridge (off the southwest coast of Florida) played in replenishing key coral ...
Ecophysiology of mesophotic reef-building corals in Hawai'i is ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/ecophysiology-of-mesophotic-reef-building-corals-in-hawaii-is-influenced-by-symbiont-host-associations-photoacclimatization-trophic-plasticity-and-adaptation/
Mesophotic reef corals remain largely unexplored in terms of the genetic adaptations and physiological mechanisms to acquire, allocate, and use energy ...
Geomorphology and benthic cover of mesophotic coral ecosystems of the ...
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Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are largely restricted to Zone I and concentrated on topographic highs removed from the influence of active ...
Fluorescent proteins in dominant mesophotic reef-building corals
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Reef-building corals inhabiting the mesophotic zone (30-150 m) not only survive but thrive in light-limiting environments. Similar to shallow corals ...
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems – A Lifeboat for Coral Reefs?
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This report is based on one of the recommendations from the 2014 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) “Scientific Workshop on Coral Reef ...
Depth specialization in mesophotic corals (Leptoseris spp.) and ...
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Corals at the lower limits of mesophotic habitats are likely to have unique photosynthetic adaptations that allow them to persist and dominate in ...
New Study Identifies Marine Spatial Planning Approaches to Site ...
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Earlier this month, scientists at the NOAA’s NCCOS, NOAA’s Office of Aquaculture, and partners published a new journal article in Bulletin of Marine ...
How do Light-dependent Mesophotic Corals Survive and Thrive under Low ...
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The ability of deep, light dependent mesophotic corals to grow in low-light conditions is a poorly understood realm of biology. Research, sponsored in ...
Mesophotic Reefs in Southwest Puerto Rico Shaped by Sediment Movement
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Sediment exerts a basic control on the character and distribution of both shallow and mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). In a rare study focused on ...
NCCOS Scientists Lead DWH Adaptive Management Workshops
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NCCOS scientists (Tim Battista, Charles Menza, Chris Taylor, Randy Clark and Sarah Hile) led two workshops at NMFS Southeast Regional Office in St ...
A Fantastic Journey: From the Seafloor to the Museum Collection
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S. exserta in the Gulf of Mexico (left). Credit: NOAA, UNCW, NMSF. A branch of S. exserta stored permanently at the Smithsonian Invertebrate Zoology ...
A comprehensive investigation of mesophotic coral ecosystems in the ...
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Fish species present in shallow and mesophotic depths have similar population and trophic (except benthic invertivores) structures and high genetic ...
Compound-specific isotopic analysis of amino acids reveals dietary ...
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Typically spatially removed from such impacts, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) at intermediate depths (30-150 m) may serve as refugia for these ...
Rolling in the Deep: NOAA Expeditions to Assess and Restore Gulf of ...
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In the darkest, deepest zone of the Gulf of Mexico, a vibrant array of corals, fish, sea fans, and more flourishes near the seafloor. Known as “mesoph ...
Characterization of the mesophotic benthic habitat and fish assemblages ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/characterization-mesophotic-benthic-habitat-fish-assemblages-rov-dives-pulley-ridge-2015-rv-walton-smith-cruise/
This cruise was conducted at Pulley Ridge mesophotic reef in the Gulf of Mexico, from August 22 to September 4, 2015, in collaboration with the ...