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If you happened to visit the University of Michigan's main website in the last few days, then you've surely noticed the first research feature on the landing page: A Michigan News article on Professor Allgeier's recently published study.
"Jacob Allgeier, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, studies fish and seagrass and coral ecology in bays of the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. He noticed that seagrasses growing in bays overloaded with nutrients, mostly from human wastewater, quickly died off. Light couldn’t penetrate through the phytoplankton, which also proliferated under the high-nutrient conditions."