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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 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 ...
Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC) – Solutions Today for Reefs ...
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The Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC) is a network of scientists and managers supporting conservation, restoration, and management goals to ...
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 ...
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - NCCOS
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Shallow Water Corals Coral reefs are living, three-dimensional, underwater structures that provide habitat to algae, fish, crustaceans, and other ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blushing Star Coral from Deeper Reefs May Help Replenish Shallow Reefs ...
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A colony of blushing star coral, Stephanocoenia intersepta, on a mesophotic reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.Credit: Ryan Eckert ...
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 ...
Long-distance Reefs May Be Key to Coral Recovery From Bleaching in ...
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The coral’s recovery depends on adaptation capabilities, fishing pressure, overall number of stressors, reef conditions before the event, and degree ...
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 ...
Developing Coastal Dune Models Specific to California’s Coast
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Long-distance Reefs May Be Key to Coral Recovery From Bleaching in Moorea and Tahiti January 8, 2025 Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pigmented Band Diseases - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Red Band Disease, RBD (K-O) Thin red band of filamentous cyanobacteria loosely associated with the coral, separating tissue and white skeleton ...
Characterized Diseases - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Characterized Diseases White Band Disease White Band Disease (WBD) is a common tissue loss disease that affects the two Caribbean acroporid species ...