Creating coral experiment

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Creating coral experiment

Researcher Cody Clements places bottle caps into the rocky sea floor off Votua Reef, on the Coral Coast of the Fiji Islands. The caps are used to anchor small colonies of coral for experimentation to understand how crown-of-thorns sea stars and seaweed affect coral growth. The bottle caps allow for the coral colonies to be removed for accurate weighing. (Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech)

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Categories
Environment, Life Sciences and Biology, Research
Keywords
coral, coral reef, predator, sea star, seaweed
Status
  • Created By: John Toon
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Dec 4, 2015 - 2:09pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:52pm