Making light work of adaptation

Robert W. Buddemeier
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Robert W. Buddemeier: Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6639, 229-230

Abstract: A paradox about reef-building corals is that they seem to be vulnerable to environmental change in the short term, yet have persisted for hundreds of millions of years. A new study may provide the solution, showing that the corals form symbiotic associations with many different types of algae, and the distribution of these algal taxa within coral-reef communities varies according to light and temperature, allowing the corals to adjust to environmental changes.

Date: 1997
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