The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality has recently selected the development of a coral nursery for financial endorsement from a short-list of innovative projects and technologies aimed at protecting biodiversity.
From December 13th to 17th this year, about 300 marine biologists from all over the world will convene in Wageningen, The Netherlands, to discuss the state of the art on coral reef research.
The Indo Pacific Coral Finder is an easy-to-use underwater book that makes genus level ID of hard corals possible, both above and below the water. Now reliable genus level coral identification is available to recreational and scientific divers, aquarists, survey teams and coral industry professionals.
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) are coral-dominated communities that occur in the deepest half of the photic zone, roughly between 30 m and 160 m in depth. Understanding these ecosystems, and specifically their supportive role in the maintenance of shallow water reefs, is vital to establishing future reef management strategies.
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