May 2, 2019 | Publications, Research
Scientific publications based on field work at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station show the quality and scope of its science. The Station’s 2018 Report lists 107 such publications from that year – all written or closely supervised by eminent... 
Apr 19, 2019 | Ecology, Global change, Research
This is a story of a unique data set quantifying the relationship between the loss of adult corals and new coral recruitment. It is reported in Terry P Hughes et al Global warming impairs stock-recruitment dynamics of corals. Recruitment occurs when tiny coral larvae... 
Mar 31, 2019 | Cleaning, Ecology, Research
On coral reefs, tiny cleaner fish and shrimps remove parasites from large fish “clients”. The cleaners obtain nourishment by eating the parasites. Although some clients are fearsome predators, the cleaners are rarely prey. Scientific studies of this remarkable... 
Mar 29, 2019 | Posts, Publications
This book describes the animals, plants and other organisms of the reef, and the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. It also has chapters on shelf slopes, fisheries, climate change, coral bleaching, ocean acidification, coral... 
Mar 4, 2019 | Grants, Plastic pollution, Research
My colleagues and I are researching how plastic consumption may affect the transition (recruitment) that fish make from an open water (pelagic) existence to settlement in a coral reef community. Microplastics have been found in the digestive tracts of juvenile coral... 
Feb 22, 2019 | Biodiversity, Fellowships, Research
[Dr Daniela Pica is a marine scientist based at Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona Italy. Her research is expanding scientific knowledge of shallow water lace corals, most recently in Indian and Pacific Ocean locations. This is her report of recent field...