Fiji coral biological variety experiment

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Fiji coral biological variety experiment

Tables with coral gardens painstakingly planted by Georgia Tech researcher Cody Clements. At bottom, the close up table shows Pocillopora corals developing a pattern of death where one individual started dying and then others fell like dominos. This table was a "monoculture." It contained only one species and not a group of species. Tables with groups of species did better than monoculture tables in the same reef area off of Fiji in the Pacific. Credit: Georgia Tech / Cory Clements

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Research, Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics, Environment, Life Sciences and Biology
Keywords
coral, coral bleaching, coral conservation, Coral Decline, coral disease, Coral Disease Reef Marine Organisms, Coral Ecology, Coral Ecosystems, coral health, Acropora, Pocillopora damicornis, Padina perindusiata, seaweed, Porites cylindrica, Acropora millepora, Sargassum polycystum, Turbinaria ornata, Polyculture, Monoculture, ecology, Ecology and Environment, Ecology and Evolution, Ecology & Evolution, environmenntal science, environment
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  • Created By: Ben Brumfield
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jan 30, 2019 - 1:23pm
  • Last Updated: Jan 30, 2019 - 1:23pm