Nov 19, 2025 · Our global ocean provides equally essential ecosystem services—including half of the oxygen we breathe—and coral reefs are among the primary sources of these services. A …

Dec 19, 2025 · Reef-building corals create habitats for many other organisms. Coral reefs are highly diverse and unique around the world, providing shelter and sustenance for abundant …

Dec 19, 2025 · Fish that inhabit a coral reef play essential roles in the reef ecosystem, and reefs without fish struggle to recover from bleaching or other events that damage the coral.

Oct 30, 2013 · And in a new study, Apprill and colleagues identified throngs of bacteria living within coral tissues. “We are looking at the coral complex like a superorganism,” she said: All …

Healthy coral reefs are magnets for marine life, rivaling only rainforests for the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. Here's a sampling of reef animals.

Dec 19, 2025 · Stressors can affect organisms living on the reef or they can affect the corals, themselves. When corals die, other organisms must relocate or struggle to survive.

May 16, 2025 · A coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, where reef water microbial sampling has been employed to examine coral reef ecosystem health. (Photo by Amy Apprill, ©Woods …

May 18, 2023 · “By recording the sounds of a healthy reef and playing them back to coral larvae, maybe we can get them to settle somewhere they normally wouldn’t—on a damaged reef in …

Sep 21, 2022 · The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) $5 million to participate in NSF’s ground breaking Convergence Accelerator …

Nov 12, 2018 · A thriving coral reef community at Hotsarihie, Republic of Palau. A research team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified a detailed mechanism showing how …