Sentences with phrase «healthy reef ecosystem»

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Bellwood compares the tubelips and other coral - eating fish to leeches or mosquitoes — harmless to a healthy ecosystem, but if there are too many of what he calls «slimy suckers» in an unhealthy reef, they could stress the corals.

In healthy coral reef ecosystems, concentrations of ammonia — a toxic waste product produced by most animals — are close to zero.

Cultural values of many tropical island communities (e.g., religious sites and traditional uses of marine resources) depend upon healthy coral reef ecosystems and can be adversely affected by coral bleaching.

Biorock project in Gili is a new initiative for the local community, helping them to protect their coral reef and understand the importance of maintaining a healthy, vibrant marine ecosystem for future generations.

This archipelago also contains some of the most diverse and interesting marine ecosystems in the world: offshore fringing reefs which present a better visibility, healthy corals and small rocky islands that attract sharks and rays and countless number of marine species.

Known as one of the best dive sites in Asia, Sipadan is lush with coral life, an extraordinary marine ecosystem, and healthy green turtle and reef shark populations.

Daydream's resident marine biologist has described the fringing reef as one of the healthiest ecosystems in the Whitsundays.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

«The ecosystem services have actually been valued at $ 3 billion — meaning that the protection that these reefs give against tsunami waves, against coastal erosion is a dollar figure that we can never engineer anything as effective as our reefs, and in order for them to work, they have to be healthy,» said Richmond.

«What's happening is the ecosystems are being broken down in many ways and you're being left with a coral reef that is not as diverse, that is not able to function as well, that basically is not as healthy as it was previously.»

Critically, the reserves... benefit overall ecosystem health and resilience... outbreaks of coral - eating, crown - of - thorns starfish are less frequent on no - take reefs, which consequently have a higher abundance of healthy corals after outbreaks.