Sentences with phrase «cover over the reef»

In the past 27 years, half of the coral cover over the reef has been lost.

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The Great Barrier Reef has already experienced a 50 percent decline in coral cover over the last 27 years, in large part due to nutrient runoff from the coasts.

The cloud cover and wind from a cyclone that passed over this section of the reef in March may have brought down temperatures there, Baird says.

PHYSICAL FEATURES & CLIMATE The site covers a succession of environments from mangrove cayes, across lagoons, the Hol Chan Channel, eastward over the back - reef to the reef crest, and then for a further 0.75 miles out past the fore reef towards the deep sea.

One of over 7,000 islands which make up the Philippines, this 125 acre tropical island is covered in part by jungle, edged with white sand beaches and surrounded by coral reefs and azure waters.

Your scenic flight covers the Great Barrier Reef to the southeast of Cairns and then inland over sugar cane fields and the rainforest clad mountains of the Great Dividing Range.

As well as this cultural beauty you can also enjoy the incredible physical beauty of the north east coast of Bali which offers all of the Balinese themes of countryside from towering volcanoes and mountains covered with rainforest and jungle down across the hills where memorizing patterns are carved into the landscape by the rice paddies and then coconut groves and other plantations lead up to the black and white sand beaches where there is crystal clear water which is flat over the coral reefs which are home to all kinds of unreal wildlife.

Soar over rainforest covered mountain ranges, roaring waterfalls, palm tree lined coastal beaches, out over the Great Barrier Reef to be blown away of the sheer magnitude of this unique marine environment.

To try and escape the Peak Season crowds we headed back over to Keramas on the East Coast arriving around 9.00 AM and giving the tide time to cover the reef.

And later as the statues get covered over, they may become hosts to the next generation of coral reefs.

coral cover was positively correlated with the mean sea level experienced over the preceeding months... the overall picture for these shallow reefs is a positive one as they respond to increasing sea level and show rapid recovery from environmental disturbances.

Over millennia, marine life have endured and responded to CO2 levels well beyond anything projected, and temperature changes that put coral reefs and tropical plants closer to the poles or had much of our land covered by ice more than a mile thick.

Much of the dead coral has been covered over with a fuzzy, red algae, giving the reef a haunting appearance.

However, the team was not able to demonstrate a change in the amount of live coral covering the reef structure over the three decade period.