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Nature 410, 1012 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074255
Reef gets off the starting blocks
David Adam
Marine scientists in Scotland are poised to dump one and a quarter million concrete blocks onto the seabed to study the effects that artificial reefs have on sea-life.Weighing over 40,000 tonnes and taking more than two years to build, the reef will help researchers to study how marine animals select and colonize habitats, as well as offering clues to how such giant constructions affect local sea currents and seabed sediment quality.
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