Sentences with phrase «overall health of the reef»

In the face of this, experts said revising the plan to a more achievable goal of maintaining ecological function would be more realistic, while accepting that the overall health of the reef would decline with time, Michael Slezak reports for The Guardian.

Our team works directly on monitoring the overall health of the reef and you will contribute to coral reef and fish monitoring, among many other tasks, developing an impressive knowledge of this fascinating underwater environment.

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Reducing the amount of coral laid to waste by these starfish will greatly improve overall reef health, according to Sweatman.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

We talked of ocean remote sensing, scuba diving (he loved getting in and under the ocean), the threat to coral reefs, the overall health of the oceans, and, even, surfing.

There is growing concern over the decline of fisheries and the overall health of the ocean: scientists estimate that 90 % of stocks are fished at or beyond sustainable limits, habitats like coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification, and large areas of ocean and coastlines are polluted.

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.