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- Abstract:
- Easter Island is the most isolated inhabited island in the world, over 3,000 kilometers from the Chilean coast. At about 29 degrees South, it is the southern limit to the range in which corals can thrive, and its extreme isolation has led to a depauperate marine community with extremely high endemism. However, whereas coral reefs around the world are currently in decline, reefs at Easter Island appear to have been increasing in coral cover for the last several decades from an algal-dominated state. Researchers from Chile and the US sought to determine how the small regional species pool and isolated oceanographic position of Easter Island might influence these changes. Credits: Lamb, Robert (script and production and video), Garcia, Michel (Video), Perez-Matus, Alejandro (Video), Wieters, Evie (Video), Navarette, Teresa (Video), and Witman, John (Video).
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- This research was supported by the Fondecyt (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico de Chile), Chile National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development under award number #1130167 .
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Lamb, Robert,
"Marine Ecology in Easter Island"
(2015).
Brown University Open Data Collection, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts, Ecological and Evolutionary Biology.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/x3n0-zr50
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