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University of Exeter: ‘Traffic calming’ boosts breeding on coral reefs

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Scientists introduced “traffic calming” on three reefs for an entire breeding season – cutting the number of boats within 100m, and reducing the speed of those within that distance. They then tracked the breeding of fish called spiny chromis – and found 65% of nests on quieter reefs still contained offspring at the end of […]