Migration helps corals survive climate change

11:16 PM Thu 3 Feb 2011 GMT

'Coral bleaching- a threat from climate change' ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies &copy

ARC Centre says the key to preserving the extraordinary richness and beauty of the world?s coral reefs through the coming period of fragmentation caused by climate change lies in a better understanding of how newborn coral larvae disperse across the oceans to settle and grow on new reefs. Research by scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies is throwing new light on the survival and settlement rates of larvae from different coral species, as a basis for predicting how fast coral species might change where they live in response to climate change. 'Coral larvae are weak ...

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by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies