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Rottnest’s tropical corals found to thrive

Science Network WA, 21 Aug 2015.

RESEARCHERS are surprised at thriving coral growth at Rottnest Island, predicting its smaller coral communities could grow into a reef similar to the one that existed there in the Last Interglacial, approximately 130,000 years ago. Read the full story in Science Network WA.

Could Rottnest Island corals thrive into a tropical reef like these tropical corals pictured? (photo: Photo Creative Commons: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2011)

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