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University Of New South Wales: Soft corals more resilient than reef-building corals during a marine heatwave

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Soft corals, the penned, fanned and tentacled corals, of Lord Howe Island appear more resilient to coral bleaching than their hard coral cousins, a team of marine biologists led by UNSW Science finds. Hard, reef-building corals appear to be less resilient to coral bleaching than soft corals according to a survey at the world’s southern-most […]