Schooling Pick - handle Barracudas, Big - Eye Jacks and batfish were seen cruising
along the reef densely covered in soft coral, both alongside the wall and the slope side.
Constraining coral
reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting
reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist
along reefs occupying
densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.