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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Decline and recovery of coral reefs linked to 700 years of human and environmental activities

Decline and recovery of coral reefs linked to 700 years of human and environmental activities

Changing human activities coupled with a dynamic environment over the past few centuries have caused fluctuating periods of decline and recovery of corals reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, according to a new study. Using the reefs and island societies as a model social-ecological system, a team of scientists reconstructed 700 years of human-environment interactions in two different regions of the Hawaiian archipelago.
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