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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Coral Reef Restoration - Is There a Need for Crabs?

There are multiple reasons why coral sexual cycles are failing in the world. One of them is that the populations are so small and degraded, they're not dense enough to support fertilization. There's been a shift in this region from coral dominated to algal dominated reefs. So we've a major problem our reef, covennalgi. And so doctor jason spirero, his research is to figure out, can we see increased coral recruitment with the help of these cribbin king crab, spider crabs?

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