Vanuatu: the coral reef, record of a 23 000 year history - Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

© IRD / Olivier Barrière Arable land denshering around Elahé, Amerindian village Wayana in French Guiana Indigo 44480  

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Vanuatu: the coral reef, record of a 23 000 year history

October 2003

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© IRD / Guy Cabioch Vue d'avion montrant l'agencement de récifs coralliens vivants le long de la côte Indigo 9172  

A research team from the IRD "Tropical Palaeo-environments and climatic variability" research unit and their American co-workers (1) have succeeded in retracing over a 23 000 year period the history of a coral reef of the Island of Urelapa, in Vanuatu.