University of Queensland (UQ) researchers are planning to test whether the Great Barrier Reef will be able to recover from the effects of climate change.
The annual Great Barrier Reef coral mating season has begun and researchers on Heron Island off the Queensland coast are planning to capture coral sperm and eggs in order to subject them to different levels of carbon dioxide as they develop.
PhD student Alicia Lloyd from UQ’s Coral Reef Studies Centre says her team will collect coral eggs and sperm when the spawning begins to cross-fertilise with adult coral.
She says the aim is to grow coral in tanks with different levels of carbon dioxide and acidity.
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