California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds and a team of researchers said the algae, known as peyssonnelid algal crusts (PAC), are taking over the reefs at such an aggressive rate that they are interfering with the ability of coral larva, or babies, to find places to settle on the reefs, and interfering with the reef’s natural ecosystem.
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