Researchers have developed a method to measure coral biodiversity through extracting the environmental DNA (or eDNA) from a liter of surface seawater collected from above a reef. The method has ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further damage in coming decades. Some scientists have held out hope that tropical ...

Therefore, better understanding coral reef biodiversity ... Assembly rules of coral reef fish communities along the depth gradient. Current Biology, 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.040; ...

More information: Pierre E. Galand et al, Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome, Nature Communications (2023).DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38500-x. Alice Rouan et al, Telomere DNA length ...

Detecting coral biodiversity in seawater samples Coral eDNA has been accurately detected in seawater samples, and this has huge implications for coral reef conservation, says researchers.

Coral reefs host millions of bacteria, ... But the biodiversity of these reef-dwelling microbes is unclear. Most studies examine animal species in a small area or focus on only one species.

From unreliable surveys to environmental DNA precision. For years, coral surveys were carried out by trained divers and snorkelers who visited each reef, identified coral species one by one, and ...

The Coral Restoration Foundation has been on a mission to restore the reef, spending years planting and protecting various corals. But extreme heat is deadly for the ocean animals.