Caribbean coral reefs under siege from aggressive algae

For the past four years, the University of Oxford's Bryan Wilson, Carnegie's Chen Ming Fan, and California State University Northridge's Peter Edmunds have been studying the biology and ecology of peyssonnelid algal crusts, or PAC, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are out-competing coral larvae for limited surface space and then growing over the existing reef architecture, greatly damaging these fragile ecosystems.

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