Ecology: a different route to recovery for coral reefs.
Worldwide, many coral reef ecosystems have undergone regime shifts, changing from domination by coral to domination by algae. New work indicates that the return path is surprisingly different from the forward one.
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Department of Environmental Studies, 511 Mathematics and Science Center, 400 Dowman Drive, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. lgunder@emory.edu
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