Research on Scott Reef off Northwest Australia has shown that local coral connections help boost the resilience of remote atoll reef systems following bleaching and storms.

The research, based on extensive modeling of currents and other oceanographic variables, (…)

The study, reported in a paper published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, investigated the Scott system of reefs, an isolated group of three coral atolls 300 km off the northwest coast of Australia.