Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef

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1. Story
2. A paper in Science reports that many coral species across the Great Barrier Reef release gametes together over a few nights each year, a few nights after a full moon in late spring and early summer. The finding converted coral reproduction from something assumed to be continuous and diffuse into an annual, predictable, observable event — which is why every larval-propagation restoration method in use today depends on knowing this calendar.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Barrier Reef
5. Mass coral spawning
6. Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
7. Connections
8. Mass coral spawning
9. Great Barrier Reef
10. Coral restoration methods
11. Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
12. Coral Triangle
13. Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
14. Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster)
15. Australian Institute of Marine Science
16. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
17. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act creates a single managing authority
18. The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
19. Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
20. The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
21. A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published
22. Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved
23. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
24. A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
25. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef during a La Nina
26. The fifth mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
27. The current state of the fourth global bleaching event is not established in this package
28. Evidence
29. Many scleractinian species on the Great Barrier Reef release gametes in synchrony over a few nights each year, a few nights after a full moon in late spring and early summer. V55 verification basis: not consulted; the paper and its finding are stated from the producing model's knowledge, and the number of species reported is deliberately not quoted.