Natural Sciences: Masters of recycling

30/03/2009
Natural Sciences: Masters of recycling

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Corals perform elementary tasks in a reef ecosystem: they build three-dimensional hard structures that provide a habitat to a huge number of different organisms. Corals also create stable limestone surfaces, which in turn are the substratum for sessile life forms. Marine ecologist and biogeochemist Dr. Christian Wild and his Emmy-Noether junior research group investigate material cycles in coral reefs around the globe. Their findings are helping to protect these threatened paradises in our world’s oceans.