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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34320399
'Underwater Christmas trees' help restore key habitat
By Mark KinverEnvironment reporter BB! "ews
• 24 #ecember 20$%
• &rom the section'cience ( Environment
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in the marine ecosystem on the shaow rees aron'yney
Australian researchers are encouraging people
to buy "underwater Christmas trees" to help
restore seaweed that suddenly disappeared in
the 1980s.
1oor water aity was bame or the oss o
craywee rom 43 mies 50km o coastine aron
'yney.
Bt as the water aity has improve scientists are
now repantin* the seawee that provies a vita
habitat an oo or marine ie.
'cientists e6pect the repante seawee to
recoonise the shaow rocky rees.
7,hese orests o seawee are very important not
ony becase they provie important habitats an
oo or many itte creatres some o which are
commerciay very important they can aso
seester a si*ni8cant amont o carbon7 e6paine
proect eaer Eeie Marinei a senior research
associate at the ;niversity o "ew 'oth
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)ma*e copyri*ht +ohn ,rnb)ma*ecaption=esearchers se meta mesh to attach thecraywee to the rees
>e ae that the species Phyllospora
comosa was abnant in the area?s temperatewaters bt then isappeare seny in the eary
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7At that time the sewa*e was not very we treate
an it was pmpe ri*ht onto the coast an the
water aity was reay ba7 sai #r Marinei.
7>owever in the eary ?90s the sewa*e treatment
improve an the water aity improve
si*ni8canty.7
1enti se6
>e e6paine that research s**este that the
seawee?s osprin* i not ike poor water aityso there was a stron* correation between the poor
water aity at that time an the isappearance o
these vast nerwater orests.
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)ma*e copyri*ht +ohn ,rnb)ma*e caption ,heproect is hepin* to restore ie to areas that ha ostits craywee an the species that epene on theseawee
As the seawee ha isappeare it was necessary
to reintroce it as part o a restoration proect.
7
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pants both mae an emae7 #r Marinei to BB!
"ews.
7"ot ony i they srvive bt they aso reproce
very we - they basicay ha a ot o se6. e sai the nerwater orests that be*an with the
repantin* o the pants now stretch a cope
hnre o metres away rom the ori*ina repantin*
ocation.
,he rests o the proect to ate have been very
encora*in* he ae an the retrn o the
craywee has seen a retrn o animas that orm an
important ink in the ecosystem?s oo chain.
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7)t is sti a itte too eary to see the estabishment o
obster popations bt the smaer animas that
provie oo or them have retrne7 #r Marinei
sai.
,he waters aon* the 'yney coastine are very
popar with peope who ive in the area an se the
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waters or recreation sch as ivers 8shermen an
srers.
71eope care abot their beaches an the water
environment however most peope o not reaise
that seawee are important7 #r Marinei observe.
)n orer to e6pan an acceerate the repantin*
proect his team has set p acrowdfunding
website to raise money as we as awareness o
their work.
>e s**este: 71eope can *o onto the website an
by an nerwater !hristmas tree either or
themseves or or amiy an riens.7
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