The Creeping Coral Killer
Aggressive algae have been spreading unnoticed across reefs throughout the tropics for decades. The post The Creeping Coral Killer appeared first on Nautilus.
Coral reefs, already among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth, face a deadly new threat—one that most divers and scientists have missed. Harmful algal crusts known as PACs have apparently been spreading undetected across shallow tropical reefs for decades.
“Everywhere that we see a PAC, corals cannot get a footing,” says Bryan Wilson, a coral biologist from the University of Oxford and co-author of a that details
