Coral Reefs

Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a dive into the wild world of coral reefs! Scuba!

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[Trivia Question]

Coral average sperm per bubble

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950549/

[Fact Off]

Deep-sea coral help zooxanthellae photosynthesize

https://www.scuba.com/blog/explore-the-blue/faascinating-phenomenon-coral-fluorescence/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/73521

https://www.science.org/content/article/coral-reefs-scatter-light-forests

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-measure-glow-inside-coral-first-time

Snapping shrimp colonies with queens

https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25410/25410.pdf

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tradeoffs-weaponry-fecundity-snapping-shrimp.html

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193305

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549235

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10937227/

https://www.vims.edu/research/units/legacy/marine_biodiversity/resources/Synalpheus%20teaching%20resources.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Artificial reef pros and cons

https://www.doi.gov/blog/artificial-reefs-create-homes-sea-life

https://floridakeys.noaa.gov/artificialreefs/effects.html

https://daily.jstor.org/do-artificial-reefs-work/

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-artificial-coral-reefs-time-is-not-enough/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2100610X

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00282/full

[Butt One More Thing]

Gastrovascular pores aka secret coral buttholes

https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367177.pdf