One Tree Island Natural Coral Reef Experiments (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

One Tree Island Natural Coral Reef Experiments

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This is an experimental plume of carbon dioxide-enriched seawater and a dye tracer flowing across a coral reef flat in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. This study represents the first ocean acidification experiment on a natural coral reef community and provides evidence that near-future ocean acidification projections severely depressed coral reef growth.

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Photograph is courtesy of Aaron Takeo Ninokawa of UC Davis.

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