Ocean acidification caused by human development can alter the behaviour of baby corals, a new study shows.
A team of researchers from the School of Biological Sciences and Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland studied how ocean acidification affects the settlement of baby corals onto a reef.
The study, published in the April edition of the prestigious journal Ecology Letters, found that increasingly acidic conditions in the ocean appears to have a dramatic effect on the ability of baby corals to sense their surroundings…. Source