Resumen de Los corales. ¿Piedras, plantas o animales?
- español
Se narra parte de la historia de los corales, y además se intenta informar acerca de este grupo de interesantes pero poco conocidos organismos que son pieza clave en la construcción de una de las estructuras naturales más complejas, diversas y poco valoradas del planeta: los arrecifes de coral.
- English
In science, as in many other disciplines, the obvious is not always true. In this regard, for more than 1,500 years naturalists considered corals as plants. This article, as well as narrate this passage in the stony coral study, is an attempt to inform about an interesting, but little known group of organisms, that are a key piece in the development of one of the most complex and diverse but undervalued ecosystems on the earth: ‘coral reefs’.
