Algal Crusts Spreading in the US Virgin Islands (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Algal Crusts Spreading in the US Virgin Islands

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Peyssonnelid algal crusts spreading over a dead skeleton of Acropora palmata in shallow water in Great Lameshur Bay in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Image courtesy of Peter Edmunds.

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