[Coral-List] Corals are sensitive to being touched

Barbara Gratzer barbaragratzer at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 02:51:27 EDT 2013


Dear coral listers,

Are there any studies being made about what effect touching/skin has on
corals? I have only been reading so many times to avoid contact with skin
because of additional stress for corals but are there actual numbers to
that statement?

Warm regards,

Barbara Gratzer MSc
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Resident Marine biologist
Huvafen Fushi Resort
Republic of Maldives


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