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His hard-earned data reveal a dilemma for people who love coral reefs. Bumpheads can help corals (for example, by mowing down smothering algae) but in crowds over decades they may reduce the diversity of coral species, McCauley and his colleagues suggest July 26 in Conservation Biology. And the charismatic fish themselves rank as vulnerable to extinction, a conservation conundrum with a terrestrial parallel. The big, loud, wonderful, alarming bumpheads, McCauley says, are “underwater elephants.”
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:15:48 +0000

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