Michelle Jonker

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Juvenile corals on the Great Barrier Reef - the sex life of corals and the importance of recruitment to coral reef recovery.

Published on 21 October 2014
With this many juvenile corals (0-5cm) and teenage corals around, the coral cover at North reef is increasing.
Corals have an interesting life cycle and spend part of their lives floating around in the sea and part of their lives stuck to the reef. Adult corals are actually colonies made up of many organisms called polyps.
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