Coral Reef Decline

Coral Reef Decline

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	Written by Astroman
Saturday, 03 September 2005
Scientists agree that Coral Reefs are declining. A team of scientists from the Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory took cores of reefs in Belize that reconstructed their history over the past several thousand years and found that they were healthy and vibrant until the 1980's, when they were killed by disease and high seas temperatures. This dictates a different strategy for policymakers intent on saving reef ecosystems than just focusing on overfishing.

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