Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Globa...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sun, 03/23/2008 - 23:00

Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to "junk food" -- and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it.

This curious arrangement is one of nature's most delicate and complex partnerships -- a collaboration now facing grave threats from climate change.


 

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