When Ocean Forests Turn Toxic

Lead author, Shane Farell, examines algae samples in the lab. Farrell spent several multiple months on a research visit with co-author Daniel Petras’s former lab at the University of Tübingen to learn the methods for non-targeted metabolomics analysis (Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences).

New study in Science connects chemical “turf wars” in Maine’s kelp forests to the struggles of Caribbean coral reefs — and points to what we can do next Lead author, […]