Sentences with phrase «other coral reefs»

The increasingly bleached coral at Black Point on the Cobourg Peninsula is a worrying sign of what's to come for other coral reefs in Australia.

Like other coral reefs, the Great Barrier Reef buffers waves whipped up by tropical storms, acting as an aesthetically stunning breakwater that reduces shoreline erosion and protects waterfront neighborhoods and ecosystems from floods.

A mandatory one - time donation of Rp 30,000 is levied on your first dive and the funds are then dispersed accordingly to initiate patrols in the fishing areas in association with SATGAS, the implementation of fixed mooring buoys to reduce the need for dropping anchors, the installation of Biorock structures around Gili islands and the organization of Biorock workshops, to help spread the word about these initiatives to other coral reefs around the world as well as beach clean - ups, rubbish management and monitoring.

First, they relieve some of the pressure placed on the area's other coral reefs by creating a secondary attraction for snorkelers and scuba divers.

Ocean acidification and massive coral bleaching is destroying a part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs worldwide.

Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño event.

Not exact matches

Other reefs have suffered even more severely from the recent bleaching; Some Pacific islands, for example, have reported over 80 percent coral death rates, Eakin said.

Many reefs have gotten so degraded that even corals that are still alive can't sexually reproduce, since healthy patches are too far apart for eggs and sperm to find each other.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs grow.

A coral reef is a type of biotic reef that develops in tropical waters by the growth of coralline algae, hermatypic corals, and other marine organisms.

Coral reefs act as habitats for fish and other wildlife, providing food for communities worldwide and generating tourism dollars for seaside economies.

Cinner wants to extend this work to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, looking for other ways to help people and coral reefs survive climate change.

What sounds like an apocalyptic vision of the future for the world's tropical corals is in fact a chilling assessment of the current state of reefs built in cooler waters by oysters and other bivalve shellfish.

CORAL reefs have generated more types of animal than all other marine habitats put together.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs...

In a coral reef, as in a forest, there are rules that describe how densely or sparsely different species like to grow, how much they like being next to each other, and they often get ecological opportunities by living close to one another.

Instead, she and two other Wooster students spent 10 days collecting 125,000 - year - old pieces of coral reef and rhodoliths.

Ocean heat waves are happening more frequently and lasting longer, too — a potential major threat to coral reefs and other marine organisms, according to new research.

Among other examples of local and regional tipping points are the rapid collapse of coral reefs in the face of rising ocean acidity and the transformation of ecosystems by the extinction of a dominant species, or the introduction of a new one.

Other studies have suggested coral reefs may not last this century.

In the longer term, interactions among reef organisms would lead to dominance by other groups, including sponges and soft corals known as gorgonians.

WCS has been working in the northwest of Madagascar for over 10 years to create marine protected areas to protect marine turtles and other important marine ecosystems and species including coral reefs, seagrasses, dugongs and sharks and rays.

Worldwide, most reefs were «substantially degraded before 1900,» they report, long before recent episodes of coral bleaching caused by climate change or other factors began.

Other papers in the same issue suggest that the global decline of coral reefs is more widespread and began much earlier than researchers once believed.

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

This would mean that, compared to other living coral systems, such as the Pacific atolls of Enewetak and Bikini, which have accumulated over more than 45 million years, the Great Barrier Reef is an infant in geological terms.

Because of their natural defense mechanisms they are afraid of almost no other marine life, and will consume dozens of species of the tropical fish and invertebrates that typically congregate in coral reefs and other areas.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

The starfish will typically reduce the amount of living coral from around 25 percent to less than 5 percent of a reef, which comprises mostly dead coral as well as other kinds of aquatic life.

Other studies, however, have shown that pristine coral reef systems with a full complement of sea life can actually lead to corals getting sick more often from bacteria and fungus.

As corals grow, they construct the complex calcium carbonate framework that provides habitat for fish and other reef organisms.

In addition to Marcelino, Backman and Swain, other authors of the paper are Jesse B. Vega - Perkins, William K. Oestreich, Conrad Triebold, Emily DuBois and Margaret Siple, of Northwestern; Jillian Henss, of the Field Museum; and Andrew Baird, of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia.

We are learning that some corals are more sensitive to heat - stress than others, but reef fishes also vary in their response to these disturbances,» said lead author Ms Richardson.

Seagrass beds, like coral reefs, form a highly productive and diverse ecosystem, acting as the nursery for many kinds of fish as well as a home to sea turtles, manatees, birds, and a host of other sea creatures.

A progress report by the United Nations Environment Programme and the CBD finds that coral reefs are particularly at risk; 55 per cent are threatened by overfishing and other pressures.

Without corals, reefs — and the protections they provide other species and as storm barriers — disappear.

«We found that commonly applied molecular methods did not give enough resolution to distinguish the dominant symbionts of Gulf corals from those in other parts of the world's oceans,» explains Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Head of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton.

The new analysis acknowledges that other ecosystems, such as coral reefs and kelp forests, provide valuable storm and erosion protection, key fish habitat and recreation opportunities, and thus deserve protection.

«Our results suggest that species that occur in these subtropical and temperate reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef are more closely related to each other and have more similar characteristics than the coral species that occur on the Great Barrier Reef.

Policymakers are interested to know whether other marine systems — such as coral reefs, kelp forests, phytoplankton and fish — can mitigate climate effects.

In other words, they may act as a circuit - breaker that allows corals to regain control of a reef.»

Mr Gore says: «Coral reefs all over the world because of global warming and other factors are bleaching.»

Other corals are known to jettison their fleshy polyps, particularly when under stress, but these are the first species known to «take their skeletons with them,» says Paul Sammarco, a coral - reef ecologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Science Consortium in Chauvin.

«Corals are creating a habitat for other species, and reefs are critical to fisheries.»

«Most reefs across the Caribbean, and indeed in many other areas of the world have seen rapid loss of coral cover and their growth potential has been massively reduced.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

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 reCoral 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 recoral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Scientists have discovered that these tough, mobile corals can create their own stable habitats, which act as a base upon which other species can attach and build reefs.

Such strategies may include farming and transplanting corals and creating artificial reefs from concrete and other material.

The tropical cyclones of 2005, despite their destructive impacts on patches of coral reef and U.S. cities, helped a broader swath of Florida reefs recover faster than other reefs in the Caribbean.