Healthy and Degraded Coral Reefs (IMAGE)

European Association of Geochemistry

Healthy and Degraded Coral Reefs

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The left side of this photo shows a healthy reef at Heron Island. The right side shows an example of a degraded reef off Townsville after attack from Crown of Thorns and bleaching.

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Reproduced with Kind permission of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland

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