Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals ...
and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies can be either dieocious or hermaphroditic and can also reproduce asexually through fragmentation and ...
Museum coral researcher Dr Ken Johnson explains the significance of the specimens: ‘Darwin collected the corals to demonstrate how the foundations of the atoll were built up by the skeletons of corals ...