Sexual propagation of corals is a promising strategy for coral restoration, but one of the main challenges is the high mortality of coral spat due to competitive interactions with macroalgae during the early life history stages. Optimising the properties of settlement substrates such as material types and surface roughness has the potential to improve the survival of spat by limiting the recruitment and growth of macroalgae. I...

In this study, the elastic characteristics of reservoir rocks and their relationship to porosity and pore fluid were predicted using the fluid substitution method in combination with machine learning techniques. We first discarded the data at gas points to remove the erroneous effect of gas on the prediction process of Poisson’s ratio using the three proposed machine learning models. Then, the prediction was carried out after...

Sponges host a wide range of cryptic biodiversity both internally and externally. This study quantified the biodiversity inhabiting, or associated with, three morphologically distinct coral reef sponges. Coelocarteria singaporensis , Coscinoderma mathewsi and Ircinia microconulosa were collected from fringing reefs at Orpheus Island, central Great Barrier Reef, across monsoonal seasons (wet and dry) and diurnal periods (mornin...

A total of 60 green turtle eggs were obtained from sampling sites in Terengganu and Sabah, Malaysia. Isolation and identification of bacteria from these eggs resulted in 12 genera of Gram-negative bacteria with 12 different species. The most frequently isolated bacteria were Salmonella (30.9%) and Proteus (23.7%). The rest of the microorganisms were Aeromonas, Escherichia, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Morganella, Pse...