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Biodiversity Is More Than Just Counting Species

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Scientific American

Publication Date
2017-05-31

Emmett Duffy was about 5 meters under water off the coast of Panama, when a giant, tan-and-white porcupinefish caught his eye. The slow-moving creature would have been a prime target for predators if not for the large, treelike branches of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) it was sheltering under.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biodiversity-is-more-than-just-counting-species/