Imagine diving into a crystal-clear ocean and suddenly coming face-to-face with a bustling metropolis built not by humans, ...

and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies can be either dieocious or hermaphroditic and can also reproduce asexually through fragmentation and ...

Coral skeleton records the oxygen concentration ... Charles (Scripps Institution for Oceanography). "Our coral collection allows us to reconstruct the variability of the oxygen-poor waters during ...

This group of corals takes on many forms and its skeleton is a favourite habitat ... Twenty-nine of Darwin's coral specimens were donated to the natural history collections of the British Museum in ...

Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals ...