Nature Communications
10.1038/s41467-021-24777-3
Observational study
Animals
Rapid ecosystem-scale consequences of acute deoxygenation on a Caribbean coral reef
26-Jul-2021
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Brittlestars and other marine invertebrates climbed to the top of a coral reef to avoid an acute low-oxygen (hypoxic) event in Almirante Bay, Panama, September, 2017. Credit: Maggie Johnson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Blanca Figuerola, STRI post-doctoral fellow, categorizes microgastropods. She used microgastropods from coral reef sediments to compare the effects of hypoxia on new and old reefs and to understand how people's presence in the region contributes to marine hypoxia. Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute