Microbiology
The major feature of the coral immune system.
What is mucus?
Limiting nutrients in wastewater.
What are phosphorus and nitrogen?
The season that experienced the largest coral mortality.
What is summer?
1972
When was the first observation of disease in coral?
The simple organisms coral reefs are built from.
What is a coral polyp?
The only experimental group that experienced coral tissue gain.
What was the control group?
It's the microbial genus believed to be involved in many coral diseases.
What is Vibrio?
Where partially treated wastewater is pumped into the ocean.
What is the Florida Keys?
The experimental group that resulted in the highest algal richness.
What is exclosure and nutrients?
The chemical used by many microbes for chemotaxis.
What is Dimethylsulfoniopropionate?
An aquatic animal that avoids coral after it is associated with algae.
What are butterflyfish?
The temperature range that had the lowest microbial diversity.
What is mid-range (24-30 degrees)?