Lectures tagged "coral"

Coral Reefs: Ecology and Evolution
Daniel Thornhill
April 6, 2009
00:33:23
Marine biologist Dan Thornhill discusses his work investigating the physiological, ecological, and evolutionary processes driving speciation in marine environments.
Causes and Consequences of Coral Decline
Josh Idjadi
March 30, 2009
00:45:14
Josh Idjadi discusses the scientific debate about the causes of the decline of coral reefs, looks at how this might affect the associated reef community, and talks about the recent recovery of a potentially essential algae-eating urchin.
Coral Reefs in Danger
Joan Kleypas
April 16, 2007
00:52:25
Coral reefs have traditionally been considered robust ecosystems, surviving unchanged over thousands of millennia, and rebounding after tremendous insults such as hurricanes and nuclear testing.