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Talbot Bay Coral Discovery Defies Conventional Belief


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Geoff Vivian

Source: ScienceNetwork Western Australia

November 8, 2011

 

"KIMBERLEY coral reefs are thriving in turbid inter-tidal conditions and defying conventional scientific understandings that corals need clear oceanic waters to survive.

 

Marine biologist Dr Barry Wilson last year spent time at Turtle Reef in Talbot Bay, on advice from One Arm Point's Bardi-Jawi people.

 

Dr Wilson says there is greater diversity of coral species in Kimberley reefs than in oceanic atolls or the Great Barrier Reef.

 

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