Press Releases from KIKAI institute for coral reef sciences (1 total)
Surprising growth rates discovered in world’s deepest photosynthetic corals
New research published in the journal Coral Reefs revealed unexpectedly high growth rates for deep water photosynthetic corals. The study, led by Samuel Kahng, affiliate graduate faculty in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), alters the assumption that deep corals living on the brink of darkness grow extremely slowly.
Leptoseris is a group of zooxanthellate coral species which dominate the coral…
