Killer Seaweed (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Killer Seaweed

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The green seaweed Chlorodesmis fastigiati is shown growing on a reef. This seaweed damages the coral it contacts, as shown by the absence of corals immediately adjacent to it.

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