Message #242504

[Christiana Hanaman]

Second Place: Wide-Angle

Photograph courtesy Matt Potenski, RSMAS

Schools of fish flash among red mangrove in the Bahamian island of South Bimini.

Mangroves serve as vital, intermediate nurseries as coral reef fish journey from their "cribs" in seagrass beds to the large coral reef ecosystems where the fish spend their adulthoods.

(Read more: "Mangroves Are Nurseries for Reef Fish, Study Finds.")

Published April 26, 2012