{"id":15641,"date":"2017-03-31T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/?page_id=15641"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:43:09","slug":"marine-lakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/research\/marine-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill and Peggy Hamner, with help from Winkler Maech, Joshua Blesam and Francis Toribiong, first described the unique water column physics, chemistry, and biology of \u201cJellyfish Lake,”\u00a0 known as Ongeim\u2019l Tketau in Palauan, emphasizing its unique ecological structure.\u00a0 In the years since, five subspecies of the golden jellyfish, Mastigias papua,<\/em> each from a different lake, have been named, examples of adaptive evolution and speciation in these novel environments. Biodiversity in the marine lakes has also been discovered in the forms of the famous medusa-eating sea anemone,\u00a0 Entacmaea medusivora<\/em> , and numerous sponges, sea squirts and new lake fauna.<\/p>\n The importance of marine lakes is not limited to biological studies.\u00a0 Because the lakes formed many thousands of years ago, they have been accumulating layers of undisturbed sediment in their bottoms which reflect the environmental conditions in the past.\u00a0 These layers can be sampled by coring and provide remarkable information on past climates and biological communities in Palau.\u00a0 The cores have produced records of past climate variation, drought-like conditions and major climate shifts in the area.\u00a0 These events have been pivotal in understanding the human habitation of Palau over the last 3,000 years.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” el_id=”img-gallery” el_class=”h-gallery”][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16912,16913,16914,16915,16916,16917″ img_size=”full” column_number=”3″ grayscale=”no” images_space=”gallery_without_space”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” background_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=”two_columns” switch_to_one_column=”1000″][qode_elements_holder_item item_padding=”20px 9% 30px 9%” advanced_animations=”no”][vc_single_image image=”15753″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1491176500169{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” thickness=”1″ up=”15″ down=”0″][vc_column_text el_class=”point”]Tourism pressure does impact the lake, and therefore all visitors are reminded to behave and act responsibly to the environment.<\/p>\n We can all do our part in protecting this unique environment when visiting Jellyfish Lake.[\/vc_column_text][\/qode_elements_holder_item][qode_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 0px 0px 0px” advanced_animations=”no”][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”16456,16457,16618,16619″ img_size=”full”][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”yes” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16621″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1491340645627{padding-top: 50px !important;background-color: #e2d62d !important;}”][vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”Marine Lakes Menu” el_class=”extra”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1493936548835{margin-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16460″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1493955286646{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Marine lakes are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15641\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coralreefpalau.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How we can keep Jellyfish Lake healthy<\/h3>\n
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