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Solving 'Darwin's Paradox': why coral island hotspots exist in an oceanic desert

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imageProductivity hotspots in an otherwise nutrient-poor ocean. High abundances of plankton-eating fish on an Indo-Pacific coral reef.Zafer Kizilkaya, CC BY-SA

It was Charles Darwin, almost 200 years ago, who first asked how it could be that coral reefs could flourish in relatively barren parts of the Pacific Ocean. This conundrum subsequently became...

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