Giant doughnut-shaped limestone mounds sitting in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, called Halimeda bioherms, have been building up on the seafloor off the Australian coast since the last ice age.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's great wonders, but scientists have been surprised to find something equally spectacular lurking behind it. A team from James Cook University, the ...

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Recent findings published in the journal Coral Reefs show the that Halimeda bioherms in the deeper seafloor beyond the Great Barrier Reef cover a surprisingly vast area: 2,300 square miles, compared ...

Tropical seaweeds in the genus Halimeda reduce losses to grazing by capitalizing on diel patterns of herbivore activity. These seaweeds produce new, more herbivore-susceptible growth at night when ...