Where did all the corals go?
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A seascape impacted by bottom-trawling where only relatively small, flexible and more resilient corals remain (1118 metres depth). Slow coral growth rates means recovery of these ecosystems is expected to be protracted; little change was observed over a decade during a CSIRO study.
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