ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
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For the world’s fish species, surviving climate change means growing up in oceans that are warmer and more acidic. How young fish cope with these new conditions will have a major...
Seagrass meadows throughout the tropics are regularly exposed to destructive forces, such as cyclones, floods, poor water quality and coastal development. Nevertheless, there is ev...
Why are there less fish in the sea? How you answer that question depends on who you are.If you were in an environmental group, you might give a complex understanding of what ca...
Picture your living room for a second - a comfortable couch, your favourite armchair and a nice cup of tea on the table. Imagine for a minute that one day you enter this favourite ...
During Australia’s National Science Week, Jodie took over the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Snapchat account and used funny captions and emojis to engage young pe...
Drive a mere 777 miles north of Perth, take a dive beneath the waves, and you’ll find the Ningaloo Reef – the world’s largest fringing reef, stretching 162 miles along Wester...
Professor Katrina Brown, an accomplished environmental social scientist, is set to receive an honorary doctorate from Wageningen University, a leading Dutch university.Professo...
A Boeing 747 can fly safely on just one engine, so with four it enjoys a considerable level of redundancy. Engineers purposefully build this type of redundancy into machines to red...
Author: Brock BergsethReseaching as a Coral CoE PhD student these past four years steered me ever deeper down the rabbit hole of illegal fishing. This is currently a big 'black...
New research from Coral CoE, led by Jacob Eurich, Prof Mark McCormick and Prof Geoffrey Jones, suggests that similar species are able to live along side one another in coral reef f...
An international team of scientists, led by Prof David Miller and Dr Amin Mohamed, has found that the coral-associated alga Chromera, despite being a near-relative of Symbiodinium ...
Imagine you were offered the chance to live and work on a remote tropical island on the Great Barrier Reef – would you go? Coral CoE's adventurous doctoral student Tory Chase did...
The Centre's Prof Andrew Baird speaks with RadioNational this morning about the future of the world's coral reefs in the face of increasingly more intense and frequent bleaching ...
New research from the Coral CoE, led by Dr Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero, identifies a new technique to design marine reserve networks that are responsive to current and future climatic...
Using cutting-edge geochemical tracers, Dr Verena Schoepf and colleagues from The University of Western Australia and the Hawaii Institute Of Marine Biology have discovered how cor...
Rat control should be considered an urgent conservation priority on many remote tropical islands to protect vulnerable coral reefs, according to an international team of scientists.New research ha
Tropical oceans teem with the dazzle and flash of colourful reef fishes, and contain far more species than the cold ocean waters found at high latitudes. This “latitudinal diversity gradient” is o
The exemplary research of Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes, coral reef scientist and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, was honoured this week
A massive study of nearly 1800 tropical coral reefs around the world has found that marine reserves near heavily populated areas struggle to do their job - but are a vast improvement over having no pr
Abstract: Many short-term experiments have demonstrated the potential impacts of ocean warming and acidification on marine organisms. However, longer-term experiments are needed to test the capac
Abstract: Majority of the human population live in the narrow coastal regions where anthropogenic impact on natural environments is at its highest. Over the last century, the Australian coastline ex
Abstract: Small-scale fisheries communities have been facing major conflicts related to economic development projects around the world. These projects are responsible for marine habitat loss and sp
Abstract: The processes that drive speciation in the marine environment are a constant source of debate among evolutionary biologists. Geographic isolation is considered the primary evolutionary forc
Abstract: Poor water quality significantly affects coral reef ecosystem function by causing shifts in species composition and size structures, and negatively impacting the feeding, growth and devel
Abstract: To best manage a protected area, a knowledge of the ‘real estate’ is considered essential. Recent advances in technology has allowed for the development of habitat mapping for the ful
Abstract: The current diversity of ecological systems is a result of complex interactions between biotic and abiotic regulators acting in space and time. While abiotic processes tend to influence b
Abstract: Connectivity between coral reefs is critical to ensure their resilience and persistence against disturbances. It is driven by ocean currents, which often have very complex patterns within
Partner Research Institutions
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
