Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life

Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
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Kai Kopecky, University of Colorado Boulder and John Kominoski, Florida International University People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair. But