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New algae threatens conservation of Caribbean coral reefs

For the past four years, the University of Oxford’s Bryan Wilson, Carnegie’s Chen-Ming Fan, and California State University Northridge’s Peter Edmunds have been studying the biology and ecology of peyssonnelid algal crusts, or PAC, in the US Virgin Islands, which are out-competing coral larvae for limited surface space and then growing over the existing reef architecture, greatly damaging the fragile ecosystems of the ocean.

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