{"id":141297,"date":"2022-06-28T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/feeding-supplements-to-corals-could-one-day-help-to-regrow-the-great-barrier-reef"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:05:59","slug":"feeding-supplements-to-corals-could-one-day-help-to-regrow-the-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/feeding-supplements-to-corals-could-one-day-help-to-regrow-the-great-barrier-reef","title":{"rendered":"Feeding \u2018Supplements\u2019 to Corals Could One Day Help to Regrow The Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feeding-supplements-to-corals-could-one-day-help-to-regrow-the-great-barrier-reef2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The corals we find in the world\u2019s reefs have their own microbiomes, and scientists are figuring out how to feed them probiotic \u2018supplements\u2019 \u2013 to try and save them for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>A baby coral begins life as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/research\/natural-environment\/biodiversity\/coral-recruitment\">swimming larva<\/a> adrift in the ocean. When it is big enough, the larva sinks and secures itself to the seafloor \u2013 or, if it\u2019s lucky, a healthy reef. Once settled, it begins to clone itself.<\/p>\n<p>Shallow-water corals, made up of myriad different organisms, are essentially colonies of tiny animals collaborating with a marine algae called zooxanthellae, which feeds the coral and helps produce the calcium carbonate that forms reefs over <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/education\/tutorial_corals\/coral04_reefs.html#:~:text=With%20growth%20rates%20of%200.3,30%2C000%2C000%20years%20to%20fully%20form.\">thousands \u2013 or even millions \u2013 of years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corals we find in the world\u2019s reefs have their own microbiomes, and scientists are figuring out how to feed them probiotic \u2018supplements\u2019 \u2013 to try and save them for future generations. A baby coral begins life as a swimming larva adrift in the ocean. When it is big enough, the larva sinks and secures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}