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Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.

Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.
Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.
Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.
Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.
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Meyer-Kaiser, Kirstin
Coral community in Palau's Rick Islands Southern Lagoon.
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11/30/2022
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Caption from 2023 WHOI Wall Calendar, July:
As global temperatures rise, coral reefs are experiencing more frequent and intense bleaching events. However, in some places, corals have adapted to withstand and even thrive in higher temperatures. This community of corals was photographed by WHOI benthic ecologist Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser while diving at a high-temperature site in Palau’s Rock Islands Southern Lagoon. Members of the Meyer-Kaiser Lab were in Palau to study how reef systems recruit coral spat, juveniles that have just metamorphosed from free-swimming coral larvae. Their research could guide coral restoration projects, showing whether thermally-tolerant coral spat can seed bleached reefs.
Photo by Kirsten Meyer-Kaiser
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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