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Coral Reef Fish Are More Resilient Than We Thought, Study Finds

Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments have large chemical variations daily, which can offer recovery time for fish.
An orange clownfish, <em>Amphiprion percula</em>, lives in symbiosis with a host anemone on the Great Barrier Reef.

At a time when the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs are facing unprecedented destruction, researchers in Australia have found a small ray of hope for the fish that make the reefs their home.

Fish are more resilient to the effects of ocean acidification than scientists had previously thought, according to research published Thursday in.

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