Corals
In Our Time: Science
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Coral Atols - Is There a Diversity Pattern?
There's a phrase that came up when i was reading about this from what you three had written, that at this was a teeming with life in a sterile sea. Can you just tell mewat you mean by that corals exist in this sort of oceanic barren landscape, this oceanic desert? And darwin talked about this, you know, seeing these ocean deserts, and then coming across one of the most diverse,. if not the most diverse, eaker system hehad ever seen. So i think our understanding of reefs has been completely changed in some ways, thanks to darwin. Karlxotmi comments made us realize that tiny, unimportant, creatures like
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