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Coral Polyp Anatomy - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Polyp Anatomy Corals, often mistaken for plants due to their flower-like appearance, are animals that generally exist in the form of colonies ...
Coral Biology - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Biology The basic living unit of the class Anthozoa (further subdivided into subclass Hexacorallia, which includes stony corals, and subclass ...
Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC) – Solutions Today for Reefs ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/coral-disease-health-consortium/
The Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC) is a network of scientists and managers supporting conservation, restoration, and management goals to ...
Deep-Sea Corals - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Our projects work closely with NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program, National Marine Sanctuaries, and regional Fishery Management ...
Home - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Welcome to the CDHCThe Coral Health and Disease Consortium is a collective of scientists focused on preserving and protecting coral reef ...
White Band Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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White Band Disease (WBD) is a common tissue loss disease that affects the two Caribbean acroporid species Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata ...
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Mesophotic coral ecosystems consist of light-dependent corals and associated communities found at depths ranging from 30 to 150 meters beneath the ...
Acropora White Syndromes - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Acropora White Syndromes General Diagnostics: Lesions on elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) and staghorn coral (A. cervicornis) characterized by recent ...
Dark Spot Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Dark spot disease (DSD) is a non-lethal coral disease that is characterized by lesions of purple or brown discoloration. Dark spot disease is known to ...
Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Map
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A new publication and accompanying report by NOAA scientists and partners presents a synthesis of relevant literature –known as a systematic map– on ...
Coral Skeleton - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral colonies grow by adding new polyps through the process of budding, where a parent polyp is divided into two or more daughter polyps. This ...
Critical Research on Coral Reproduction During the Annual Spawning ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-scientists-and-partners-conduct-critical-research-on-coral-reproduction-during-the-annual-spawning-event-of-four-caribbean-coral-species/
Recruits of the brain coral Diploria labyrinthiformis that have settled onto substrate and successfully undergone metamorphosis into their polyp ...
Coral Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Disease – History and General Information History Coral disease was first recognized as a threat to Caribbean reefs in 1972 when Antonius ...
Long-distance Reefs May Be Key to Coral Recovery From Bleaching in ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/long-distance-reefs-may-be-key-to-coral-recovery-in-moorea-and-tahiti-from-bleaching/
The coral’s recovery depends on adaptation capabilities, fishing pressure, overall number of stressors, reef conditions before the event, and degree ...
Microscopic Anatomy - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Microscopic Anatomy The fundamental structure of a coral polyp is a cylindrical sac lined composed of two layers of epithelia: the surface body wall ...
Coral Reproduction - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Reproduction Corals, like many sessile organisms that are unable to search for compatible partners, have adapted unique reproductive strategies ...
Exploring the Use of Microcosms to Assess the Effects of Microplastics ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/exploring-the-use-of-microcosms-to-assess-the-effects-of-microplastics-and-contaminants-of-environmental-concern/
Contaminants of environmental concern, such as microplastics, have become increasingly present in coastal waters, potentially causing ecological or ...
White Plague - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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White Plague White plague (WP) is a common tissue loss disease that affects a broad range of scleractinian coral species. White plague is one of the ...
Coral Disease ID Key - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral tissue bordering lesion is brightly coloured, typically: pink or purple in Porites sp.; blue in Acropora sp.; Lesion may be swollen or ...
Black Band Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Black band disease (BBD) is an infectious coral disease that is globally present and affects 19 scleractinian coral species. Black band disease is ...