Satellites and genomics to support coral reef conservation in the warming Indian Ocean
Tropical coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity, but they are suffering severe degradation due to anomalous heatwaves. A recent study combined satellite observation of ocean conditions with genomic analyses of reef-building corals in the Western Indian Ocean region. This analysis pinpointed reefs likely to host heat-tolerant corals, and mapped their natural larval dispersal via sea currents across more than 1,000 km of open ocean.
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