Damsels in Hot Water

Lemon Damselfish over stony corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Image courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Editor's Page January/February 2010
If there is a canary needed for the treacherous mineshaft of global climate change, there may be no better aquatic candidate than corals in the genus Acropora. As many of us know from personal experience, these corals are exquisitely sensitive to changes of water temperature, light, and water chemistry.
What Corals Eat

MYTHS & REALITIES OF CORAL NUTRITION
By Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.
Excerpt from the January/February Issue of CORAL
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Moorea Under the Scope

Saron marmoratus, unusual color morph of the Saron Shrimp, collected in Moorea.
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Species Spotlight: The Blacktip Grouper

Young Blacktip Grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus
By Daniel Knop with photographs by Werner Fiedler
from the January/February 2010 Issue of CORAL
The Bright News from Copenhagen
Contrary to much public opinion, good things did happen at the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
Read this short piece by Dan Laffoley of Peterborough, England on the strategic importance of carbon sinks in forests and the oceans:

