{"id":93526,"date":"2019-07-12T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/coral-biodiversity-could-help-reefs-thrive-again"},"modified":"2019-07-12T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:43:00","slug":"coral-biodiversity-could-help-reefs-thrive-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/coral-biodiversity-could-help-reefs-thrive-again","title":{"rendered":"Coral biodiversity could help reefs thrive again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eo6rHkL7Fck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My own work examines whether greater diversity of coral species on reefs can help corals survive and thrive. In a study published earlier this year, my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=EAzpJiQAAAAJ&hl=en\">Mark Hay<\/a> and I found evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-018-0752-7\">the answer is yes<\/a>. This finding could help to inform broader strategies for making coral reefs more resilient in altered oceans.<\/p>\n<p><b>In nature, more is better<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Are ecosystems healthier if they contain many species than if they harbor only a few? This is a central question in ecology. Generally, scientists have found that ecosystems with more diverse <a href=\"https:\/\/socratic.org\/questions\/what-s-the-difference-between-a-keystone-species-and-a-foundation-species\">foundation species<\/a> \u2013 those that <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2019.02.020\">define a system and are inseparable from it<\/a>, such as trees in a forest \u2013 tend to be <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ncomms2328\">healthier and function better<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own work examines whether greater diversity of coral species on reefs can help corals survive and thrive. In a study published earlier this year, my colleague Mark Hay and I found evidence that the answer is yes. This finding could help to inform broader strategies for making coral reefs more resilient in altered oceans. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}