#5_Baseline Caribbean (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

#5_Baseline Caribbean

Caption

A pristine 7,000-year-old coral reef, preserved intact in a storm-cut gully in the Dominican Republic's Enriquillo Basin. Sediments within reef frameworks like this one contained thousands of microscopic fish ear stones whose nitrogen isotopes revealed how energy flowed through Caribbean reef food webs before human arrival.

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Sean Mattson

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