Algae-Dominated Reefs

By Peter Vroom, Kimberly Page, Jean Kenyon, Russell Brainard

Numerous reports suggest that reefs must be dominated by coral to be healthy, but many thriving reefs depend more on algae

Environment Oceanography

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September-October 2006

Volume 94, Number 5
Page 430

DOI: 10.1511/2006.61.430

The words coral and reef go together in everyday language like peanut butter and jelly. In fact, many people think that coral—colonial marine organisms that secrete a skeleton made of calcium carbonate—means reef.

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