Tiny Fish Live Fast, Die Young (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

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Fish on coral reefs manage to thrive in isolated areas where there are very low levels of nutrients for them to use. How? The answer may lie in the tiny fish that live in the gaps in the coral structure. From Brandl et al: 'Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral-reef ecosystem functioning.' https://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aav3384

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Images by Tane Sinclair-Taylor.

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