Temperature, It Turns Out, Greatly Influences Coral Skeleton Building (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Temperature, It Turns Out, Greatly Influences Coral Skeleton Building (4 of 5)

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Diploria labyrinthiformis and Porites astreoides coral colonies growing on tiles to measure in situ coral colony calcification rates in Bermuda. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 08 Nov. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.A. Courtney at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Environmental controls on modern scleractinian coral and reef-scale calcification."

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