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Deep and complex ways to survive bleaching

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Mass coral bleaching events can drive reefs from being the domains of corals to becoming dominated by seaweed. But longitudinal data show that more than half of the reefs studied rebound to their former glory. See Letter p.94

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Figure 1: Changing reefs.

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  1. John M. Pandolfi is in the School of Biological Sciences and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.,

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Pandolfi, J. Deep and complex ways to survive bleaching. Nature 518, 43–44 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14196

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