by, Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
November 10, 2010
“We have a very good scientific understanding of what causes reefs to decline—what we now need is a clearer picture of how to help them back onto the reverse trajectory,” says lead author, Terry Hughes from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.
Research has shown that coral reefs are resilient and even capable of recovering from large-scale devastating events.