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Coral Reef
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  • women disembarking from wooden outboard canoe

    How many people are dependent upon coral reefs?

  • Close up of coral with fish and diver in the background

    How do coral reefs benefit the economy?

  • Aerial image of oil slick moving towards coral reef (from 1986 spill at Bahia las Minas refinery in Panama)

    How does an oil spill affect coral reefs?

  • landscape of an Australian reef showing many different species,shapes, and colors of corals

    Which ocean has the most reef-building coral species?

  • symmetrical brain coral releases round cream-colored egg packets during a broadcast spawning event

    How does coral reproduce?

  • close-up image of a coral polyp where the brownish-yellow round zooxanthellae cells are visible within the clear coral tissue

    How does coral eat?

  • underwater image looking up at a towboard diver from below

    What is a Towed Diver Survey?

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