Media Category: MCR

Corals demonstrated drastic differences in bleaching severity.

Researchers, Kelly Speare and Marie Strader, collecting coral colonies.

MCR LTER graduate students Jessica Nielsen and Samantha Davis work on an exclusion cage designed to prevent access to the reef by herbivorous fishes. Credit: MCR LTER CC BY-4.0

Dana out in the lagoon with another local fisher working on the CNH project (left) and SDSU collaborator Jean Wencélius (right). Matthew Lauer, SDSU (CC BY 4.0)

Dana performing an algae assay to measure herbivory in the lagoon. Lauren Enright, UCSB (CC BY 4.0)

The Gump Station, which is home base for the Moorea Coral Reef LTER, is operated by a University of California-Berkeley, with a consortium of contributors including the National Geographic Society and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

A Crown_of-thorns seastar or COTS (Acanthaster planci) feeding on a coral colony. MCR LTER. CC BY-SA 4.0

A giant clam with blue lips MCR LTER. CC BY-SA 4.0

Healthy reefs support populations of diverse invertebrates and fish, such as this red spotted crab. Credit: MCR LTER MCR LTER. CC BY-SA 4.0