Sentences with phrase «ocean reefs across»

In this study, the abilities of three variations of a thermal threshold index and a multivariate stress model (MSM) were used to predict coral cover and community susceptibility to bleaching based on a compilation of field data from Indian Ocean reefs across the strong thermal anomaly of 1998.

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His quest took him to hundreds of reefs in both hemispheres and across the vast Indian and Pacific oceans.

The study tracked the journeys of over five billion model «larvae» from 636 remote reefs scattered across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean over a 14 and a half year period.

Professor Young says: «A number of previous studies have investigated the attenuation (height reduction) of ocean waves as they spread across individual coral reefs.

Chris Perry, Professor of Geography in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, and his team measured changes to 28 reefs across the Chagos Archipelago, the remote British Indian Ocean Territory 300 miles south of the Maldives, that lost 90 per cent of its coral cover during 1998, when sea temperatures rose to unprecedented levels.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Scientists at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University have completed a comprehensive review of the literature on the mechanisms of potential coral resistance and recovery across scales from global reef areas to the microbial level within individual corals.

Important gradients in stress levels, and therefore local adaptation of the coral holobiont exist on coral reefs across today's oceans.

This one been thelongest of the three as hot ocean temperatures fueled by El Niño and climate change have caused reefs to suffer across every ocean basin.

Here we show that CaCO3 dissolution in reef sediments across five globally distributed sites is negatively correlated with the aragonite saturation state (Ωar) of overlying seawater and that CaCO3 sediment dissolution is 10-fold more sensitive to ocean acidification than coral calcification.

Coral reefs sprawl across the ocean floor like multicolored forests, most with skeletons made of calcium carbonate — similar to the shells of the sea butterflies.

Cursor movement keys or arrow keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction A cay forms when ocean currents transport loose sediment across the surface of a reef to a depositional node, where the current slows or converges with

She's the adventurous type who wants to sail out beyond the barrier reef and across the expansive ocean.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Whether they are gliding around reefs in the oceans or crawling across a field toward a cluster of shady trees, turtles and tortoises work to keep nature in balance and share peace and beauty with all other living things.

REEF ZONATION: A trip from west (lagoon side) to east (ocean side) across the Belizean reef complex will reveal a distinct zonation of substrates and organisms that reflect the subtle environmental changes due to water depth and prevailing wave and current regimes which affect temperature, salinity, light, sedimentation and mechanical strREEF ZONATION: A trip from west (lagoon side) to east (ocean side) across the Belizean reef complex will reveal a distinct zonation of substrates and organisms that reflect the subtle environmental changes due to water depth and prevailing wave and current regimes which affect temperature, salinity, light, sedimentation and mechanical strreef complex will reveal a distinct zonation of substrates and organisms that reflect the subtle environmental changes due to water depth and prevailing wave and current regimes which affect temperature, salinity, light, sedimentation and mechanical stress.

Though scattered across thousands of square miles of ocean, dive sites in the Maldives fall into three general categories, based on structure: Individual islands within an atoll are generally surrounded by a reef that creates a sheltered lagoon.

The warm Indian Ocean flows across this wonderful coastline providing it with an abundance of beautiful tropical fish and coral reefs.

Drift along in the ocean currents across stunning coral gardens, cruise alongside white tip reef sharks, through huge shoals of colourful fish and even experience an adrenaline fuelled night dive surrounded by heaps of nurse sharks — diving in the Maldives is amazing!

Across the Indian Ocean, multi-day helicopter safaris offered by Epic Expeditions (61-7/3844 -4992; www.epicexpeditions.com; from $ 4,017, all - inclusive) crisscross Australia's Cape York Peninsula and Great Barrier Reef, hovering over tropical wilderness and stopping for croc encounters, diving, snorkeling, and desert - island trysts.

The Zanzibar archipelago is a stunning collection of 40 islands sprinkled across the Indian Ocean, each with a dazzling array of coral reefs to snorkel, rainforests to explore and fishing villages...

Costa Royale's 2 & 3 bedroom holiday apartments are spacious, well appointed and fully self - contained and the beachfront facing apartments are blessed with panoramic ocean views across the Great Barrier Reef.

Dhiraagu served as a sponsor for World Travel Award's Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony which took place in July at the five - star Sun Aqua Vilu Reef, with hospitality leaders from across the region in attendance.

Set right on Muri Beach, Te Vakaroa Villas is a secluded haven set in beautiful tropical gardens with unsurpassed views across Muri lagoon and beyond the reef to the southern Pacific Ocean.

A World Heritage Site, the Blue Hole is located near the center of Lighthouse Reef and takes up over 300 meters of the ocean and is set in a ring of corals that measure 1000 feet across and 412 feet deep.

Options here are a short sleep over on a reef like Hardy Reef with Cruise Whitsundays Reefsleep adventure, a liveaboard that moves around a little but stays in the same general area such as the Ocean Quest from Deep Sea Divers Den, or the full - blown liveaboard that travels across the Coral Sea and visits only the best sites on the reef like Hardy Reef with Cruise Whitsundays Reefsleep adventure, a liveaboard that moves around a little but stays in the same general area such as the Ocean Quest from Deep Sea Divers Den, or the full - blown liveaboard that travels across the Coral Sea and visits only the best sites on the Reef with Cruise Whitsundays Reefsleep adventure, a liveaboard that moves around a little but stays in the same general area such as the Ocean Quest from Deep Sea Divers Den, or the full - blown liveaboard that travels across the Coral Sea and visits only the best sites on the way.

Some ideal spots for surfing include Paradise Reef which is situated directly across from Kuta Paradise, Tanjung A'an with white sand beaches and good waves (4 km east of Kuta), Gerupuk a well known top surf location and situated on a peninsula of land that juts into the ocean (further east), and Mawi which has great right and left hand barrels when the swell is large enough (west of Kuta).

Either South down the reefs — or across the ocean to Turneffe Islands.

The journey on Tuesday morning takes guests» breath away as our fleet of boats skim across the ocean before reaching the crystalline, 10 foot (3 meter) deep waters of Lighthouse Reef.

Surrounded by pristine waters of the Indian Ocean, this spectacular resort stretches across two islands and is surrounded by a beautiful coral reef.

The Ocean Agency, a nonprofit based in Sydney, Australia, started a project to protect reefs across the globe.

With ocean temperatures rising across the globe as anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) continues to pick up speed, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral ecosystem on Earth, may well be an example of what is happening to all of the coral on the planet.

With ocean temperatures rising across the globe as anthropogenic climate disruption continues to pick up speed, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral ecosystem on Earth, may well be an example of what is happening to all of the coral on the planet.

Scientists reported earlier this year that 99 percent of 500 coral reefs surveyed in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been hit by the bleaching event, which has already impacted reefs across the Pacific, from American Samoa and Fiji to Hawaii and Vanuatu, as well as parts of the Caribbean, Florida Keys, and Indian Ocean.

The sediment plumes arise as ships drag their nets across the ocean floor, moving rocks, crushing reefs and stirring up various marine organisms.

This type of merger activity displaces as much «financial water» as a starfish race across an ocean reef, especially when one has the temerity to exclude combinations of necessity as contrasted with combinations of opportunity, real or perceived.