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Environmental science: Germ theory for ailing corals
Stephen R. Palumbi1
Abstract
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.
In 1876, Robert Koch was struggling to convince the world that germs cause disease. Today, environmental degradation is a pervasive planetary disease, but the causes remain shrouded in the same popular murk that made diseases mysterious before the work of Koch and Louis Pasteur.
- Stephen R. Palumbi is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA.
e-mail: Email: spalumbi@stanford.edu
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