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If changes to the beach are not too drastic, living things there are able to accommodate or recover from the changes

A penguin having fuel oil cleaned off it after the Rena wreck.

Storms can destroy complex ecosystems in rock pools, but they can be recolonised from the free-swimming juveniles and seaweed spores amongst the drifting plankton.

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