#coralline — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #coralline, aggregated by home.social.
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#WeekendReading:
Cornwall et al. with an in-depth dive into the (vastly underappreciated) role #coralline algae play in modern #reefs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00766-w -
rock-like #coralline #algae - often the structural base of #coralreefs - has a skeletal matrix that contains #chitin & is resistant to #ocean #acidification
this could suggest that chitin-rich #krill exoskeletons could be used to create reef-forming material that naturally sequesters #CO2 in rock-like formations