Clearing a Path to Resilience: Removing Dead Coral Skeletons Following Marine Heatwaves Benefits Coral Recovery

Photo 1. Lead author (Kai L. Kopecky) taking photographs of an experimental coral reef plot in Moorea, French Polynesia, to be used for photogrammetry. Photo credit: Randi N. Honeycutt. This photograph illustrates the article “Removing dead coral after marine heatwaves can mitigate coral-algae competition and increase viable coral recruitment” by Kai L. Kopecky, Gaia Pavoni, Massimiliano Corsini, Andrew J. Brooks, Bartholomew P. DiFiore, Fabio Menna, and Erica Nocerino published in Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70077