To quantify reproduction success, the team placed containers above 26 coral colonies on a reef in Palau, Micronesia during a time when the mostly hermaphroditic corals released eggs and sperm.

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...

Researchers from University of Queensland have discovered that corals need to be within 10 meters of each other to reproduce ...

Coral reefs are often described as underwater rainforests ... considerably less than the 1,400 in Micronesia and 2,000 in the Philippines. Comparing the number of hard coral species, approximately ...

The research by University of Sydney marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset ...