Protective Measures May Help Devastated Deep-Sea Corals Recover Faster Than Previously Thought (8 of 10) (VIDEO)

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Lost gear lines over damaged reef of Solenosmilia and coralliid octocorals. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 7th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.R. Baco at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL, and colleagues was titled, "Amid fields of rubble, scars, and lost gear, signs of recovery observed on seamounts on 30- to 40-year time scales."

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[Credit: A. Baco-Taylor FSU, E.B. Roark TAMU, NSF, with HURL Pilots T. Kerby and M. Cremer]

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