For the past hundred thousand years, corals have been constructing their own kingdoms in the Miami area, while helping to sustain the lives of thousands of aquatic species. The abundance of man-made detritus in the Biscayne Bay has given corals the opportunity to recycle our trash as substratum. Greco-Roman statues, Santeria cauldrons, and grocery carts all offer a permanent sustainable living situation for invertebrates. (Having clung around for nearly half a billion years without an immune system, corals have proven themselves to be resilient adapters. There’s an argument to be made that corals, who build reefs on top of the repurposed fossils of their own dead, are Miami’s first true revival architects.)- (from the newyorker see link below for full article )
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 03:56:45 +0000
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