Coral reefs are very important ecosystem which are the foundation of all life on this earth, but now they are under threat. Coral bleaching are happening now at a serious rate and the ultimate goal of conservation effort toward this issue is behaviour change. One of the most important parts of conservation effort is monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehaviour change is the target ultimate of environmental campaigns that are being intensively carried out by various parties. One of the environmental issues of global concern is coral bleaching. Coral bleaching threatens biodiversity and the balance of ecosystems around the world because marine ecosystems are the foundation of life on this earth [1].
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn exceptionally large coral Porites sp. has been identified and measured at Goolboodi (Orpheus Island), Great Barrier Reef (GBR). This coral was measured in March 2021 during citizen science research of coral reefs in the Palm Islands group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoral taxonomy has entered a historical phase where nomenclatorial uncertainty is rapidly increasing. The fundamental cause is mandatory adherence to historical monographs that lack essential information of all sorts, and also to type specimens, if they exist at all, that are commonly unrecognizable fragments or are uncharacteristic of the species they are believed to represent. Historical problems, including incorrect subsequent type species designations, also create uncertainty for many well-established genera.
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