Coral reefs are secretly connected across vast oceans – and that’s crucial for their survival
- Written by Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow in molecular ecology, James Cook University
Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem.
This reef system isn’t as famous as its northern neighbour, the Great Barrier Reef. Our new research in the Journal of Applied Ecology, shows it...





