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A new study utilizing aquarium data has uncovered the key factors that orchestrate mysterious synchronized coral spawning.
For the first time, researchers have produced a model for coral spawning, based on various environmental factors. They achieved this by tapping an often overlooked source of aquatic knowledge, an aquarium.Given their branching shapes or waving tendrils, you would be forgiven for thinking of coral as the trees of the sea. But they are really colonies of small anemones, some of which form sturdy structures which are often the familiar shapes we see in reefs.
Maruyama and his team sought an alternative scenario and found one in the form of an aquarium, specifically the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.“The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium had kept 15 years of coral spawning records for Acropora corals, a reef building coral commonly found in Japan’s southernmost prefecture Okinawa, but this data had not been used for this kind of research before,” said Maruyama.
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