Your Earth is Blue: Lionfish - Terror of the Coral Reefs
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You’ve probably heard of survival of the fittest—only the best and strongest individuals live to reproduce, causing the entire species to grow stronger and adapt to change over time.
Hollings Scholar Kelsey Miller worked this summer with Dr. James Morris to study how this could be helping a highly invasive species undermine coral reef ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean.
“I set up and manned physiology experiments, looking at the fitness at the invasive lionfish.”
The theory is that only the strongest and healthiest lionfish made it through the stress of capture, transport, and captivity while they were aquarium pets prior to being released into the Atlantic in the 1980s. Some call them “superfish.”
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