Human activities damage coral reef ecosystems. Application of the ‘germ theory’, proposed more than a century ago for human diseases, could foster action on global environmental ailments such as this.
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Palumbi, S. Germ theory for ailing corals. Nature 434, 713–715 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434713a
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