Sentences with phrase «complex fish habitat»
«Beavers, they're really good at making a mess of a system, and it's that messiness that's exactly what we're looking for, by creating more complex fish habitat.»
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As corals grow, they construct the complex calcium carbonate framework that provides habitat for fish and other reef organisms.
Callum Roberts of the University of York, UK, says trawling simplifies ecosystems, creating ecological instability, and has a history of destroying fish stocks like halibut and skate that rely on more complex seabed habitats.
The range is home to a number of important conservation targets which include, but are not limited to, at least 2 marine fish spawning aggregation sites, a breeding population of the endangered American Crocodile, and a number of threatened coastal marine habitats including the greater reef complex itself, beach forests that support several important species of resident and migratory birds and at least 2 species of marine turtles are believed to nest on the range.
Some species of deep sea stony corals form complex structures that provide similar — although not identical — ecosystem services as shallow tropical reefs: habitat for abundant and diverse associated fauna, commercial fish breeding grounds, and potential medicines for human use.