date:Dec 14, 2012
rge reefs as biogeochemical hotspotsareas with particularly high rates of chemicals cycling between organisms and the environment.
The reefs are nodes within the ecosystem matrix, he said. They're increasing productivity around the reefs by orders of magnitude. If there are enough of them (reefs), then they may be increasing productivity at the ecosystem level by orders of magnitude as well. That's something we're going to be looking at next.
Allgeier said the team's findings further point t