How much hard coral cover is enough🪸🪸🪸❓ Even the healthiest reefs will never have 100% hard coral cover. Hard coral is an important structural part of the reef, creating homes for many of the species living there. But it isn’t everything – a reef needs diversity too. And every reef is different... shaped by distance from the coast, latitude and its history. For 39 years our Long-term Monitoring Program (LTMP) has reported hard coral cover at a representative sample of reefs along the entire s
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How much hard coral cover is enough🪸🪸🪸❓ Even the healthiest reefs will never have 100% hard coral cover. Hard coral is an important structural part of the reef, creating homes for many of the species living there. But it isn’t everything – a reef needs diversity too. And every reef is different... shaped by distance from the coast, latitude and its history. For 39 years our Long-term Monitoring Program (LTMP) has reported hard coral cover at a representative sample of reefs along the entire s
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