Coral Reef Surveys Can Give Conflicting Answers—Unless Scientists Calibrate the Methods A coral reef can appear healthier or more degraded depending on how scientists measure it. A diver tracing a line across the seafloor, recording organisms at fixed points, may produce a substantially different picture from a diver photographing the same reef for later computer-assisted analysis. Now, a study spanning 56 sites across Indonesia has quantified t…
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