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