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Coral Microbial Ecology: Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Coral microbial ecology is the study of the relationship of coral-associated microorganisms to each other, the coral host, and to their environment. Just as we humans have beneficial bacteria living on our skin and in our intestines, corals also have co-habitating non-pathogenic (not disease-causing) microbes. These microbes include bacteria, More...

  • A coral reef in the south Pacific.

Conservation Genetics: Corals

This website lists samples of genetics and genomics research from the USGS Biological Resources Discipline related to the conservation genetics of corals. These resources include Genetic Tools to Understand Complex Coral Family Tree, Deep-Sea Coral Community Genetics, Connectivity Among Reefs Formed by the Deep-Sea Coral Lophelia pertusa, and the More...

  • A large Lophelia pertusa coral bush at the North Carolina Lophelia banks with a squat lobster (Eumun

Protocols for Monitoring with Digital Video and a SONAR-based Locating System (FISC)

Coral Reefs in the Caribbean and western Atlantic are deteriorating in response to hurricanes, coral diseases, anchor damage, sedimentation, and other stresses. USGS biologists at the Caribbean Field Station are documenting the current status of coral reefs and the effects of some of these stresses. The primary objective of this issue overview is More...

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Coral Reef Ecology

Coral reefs in the Caribbean and western Atlantic are deteriorating in response to hurricanes, coral diseases, anchor damage, sedimentation, and other stresses. USGS biologists at the Caribbean Field Station are documenting the current status of coral reefs and the effects of some of these stresses within Virgin Islands National Park (St. John), More...

  • Image of diver with grouper