The Case for Deep Reef Conservation (VIDEO)

California Academy of Sciences

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A team of highly trained scientific divers—led by researchers from the California Academy of Sciences—explored Pacific and western Atlantic reefs to test a widely held hypothesis that climate-stressed life from shallow reefs can take refuge at mesophotic depths (100 – 500 feet beneath the ocean’s surface). The results are clear: deep and shallow reefs are actually different systems with their own species, and deep reefs are just as threatened by climate impacts, storms, and pollution as their shallow counterparts.

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