Sentences with phrase «reef ecosystems»

The study on reproductive strategies is critical to assess the conservation of coral reef ecosystems worldwide.

However, the future state and health of reef ecosystems depends not only on climate change scenarios, but also on the trajectory of existing natural and anthropogenic stressors at a local scale.

The largest coral reef ecosystem on earth, the Great Barrier Reef, has revealed a spectacular and previously unknown jewel.

These research findings have implications for the scientific understanding of fragile coral reef ecosystems as well as for the ecological significance of grey reef sharks.

A new modeling study has identified 100 resilient reefs within the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem that, like mobile medical units, might help promote recovery of dead or dying sections.

Nearly everything in a coral - reef ecosystem depends on corals, or on the reef structure in some way.

The findings show striking similarities between the aesthetic score produced for random reef images and the health of the respective reef ecosystem as evaluated by reef scientists.

The researchers emphasize that both protection and recovery of the world's coral reefs call for a fundamental change in how people interact with and use reef ecosystems.

The coral reef ecosystems provide food and income for upwards of 100 million people, and a new study shows exactly how that networks keeps fish in the oceans.

The loss of coral reef ecosystems also is exposing people to flooding, coastal erosion and the loss of food and income from reef - based fisheries and tourism, he added.

Still, even while the corals are trying to recover, the impact is felt in the overall health of reef ecosystems.

The reduction of dissolved carbonate ions in seawater has many implications for coral reef ecosystems.

Over the past five years AIMS researchers have been studying the area, which is the only known CO2 seep site in coral reef ecosystems in the world.

«As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the climate is once again on the threshold of a new regime, with dire consequences for reef ecosystems unless we get control of climate change,» said coauthor Richard Aronson, a biology professor at Florida Institute of Technology.

And the prognosis is grim: Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, all these reefs «will cease to host functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of the century,» predicts the report from UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris.

When we examined the fossil record we saw that while the marine ecosystem continued to function as a whole, it took over 20 million years for tropical reef ecosystems to recover from this environmental cataclysm.

The analysis showed that acidic waters make it impossible for marine cement — limestone that precipitates out of the seawater as it flows against the coral reef — to form both between individual coral polyps as well as to anchor the entire reef ecosystem against the waves.

The biggest draw of the Turneffe Islands are the white - sand beaches, the crystal clear Caribbean waters, and the healthy reef ecosystem.

As described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): «It provides a classic example of the evolutionary history of reefs, contains superlative natural phenomena and areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance, and is one of the most pristine reef ecosystems in the Western hemisphere».

«Worldwide change in shallow reef ecosystems predicted as waters warm.»

Dr. C. Mark Eakin is Coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch, an effort focused on the monitoring of coral reef ecosystems through satellite, in situ, and paleoenvironmental observations.

Over a million species, most not yet described [119], are estimated to populate coral reef ecosystems generating crucial ecosystem services for at least 500 million people in tropical coastal areas.

The museum is also called «The Silent Evolution» due its eventual transformation in to a completely self sustaining reef ecosystem in the near future.

HB 53 establishes the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area.

This notorious invasive species threatens reef ecosystems in coastal waters around the southeastern U.S. and in the Caribbean Sea.

Even Australia's Great Barrier Reef, widely considered to be the best - managed reef ecosystem in the world, is suffering.

System and method for aquaculture of marine life - forms: Live corals make a stunning addition to marine aquariums, but harvesting mature coral from the wild threatens rare reef ecosystems.

«Reef ecosystems just below the mesophotic are globally underexplored, and the conventional view based on the few studies that mention them was that mesophotic ecosystems transition directly into those of the deep sea,» Baldwin said.

These urchins are an important part of reef ecosystems since they eat algae that accumulate on corals.

New research on tropical coral reef ecosystems showed that releasing larvae more often is beneficial for a species» network.

Coral bleaching has become a major threat to coral reef ecosystems worldwide [1].

For example, it says there is as yet no comprehensive investigation of the ecological, human, and economic consequences of the collapse of coral reef ecosystems due to warmer and more acidic oceans.

If other coral species build their skeletons in a similar way, then the oceans could avoid a large - scale crisis in coral skeleton formation that scientists have worried would unravel reef ecosystems.

In an international study published today, Professor David Bellwood from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) says we need to identify and protect the most important species within reef ecosystems.

At the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem at approximately 133,000 square miles (about the size of New Zealand), establishing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 1975 was a first step, but not until the park was rezoned between 1999 and 2003 was the reef given the protection needed to rebound from threats that include shipping, dredging, commercial fishing, nutrient and pesticide runoff, coastal development and diving.

Numerous experiments have shown that ocean acidification impedes coral calcification, but knowledge about in situ reef ecosystem response to ocean acidification is still scarce.

The 260,000 - gallon enclosure (which opened last week) contains the newly - designed Blacktip Reef exhibit, which sustains a delicate coral reef ecosystem reflective of the real deal in the Indo - Pacific environment.

Located on the southern island of San Salvador, Riding Rock Resort and Marina provides access to some of the Bahamas» most undisturbed reef ecosystems....

Just beyond the jetties is pristine Pauoa Bay, and a remarkable coral reef ecosystem sure to enchant beginner and advanced snorkelers alike.

Known as the «soft coral capital of the World», Fiji has some of the most stunning reef ecosystems on the planet.

In addition, strong ocean currents sweep coral larvae across the Indian and Pacific oceans to replenish other reef ecosystems.

This museum is also called the Silent Evolution due its eventual transformation in to a complete reef ecosystem in the near future.

This highly protected Marine Sanctuary is a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage Site Designation not only because of its amazing reef ecosystem but also its rich shipwreck history.

The underwater reef ecosystems of the Bahamas are teeming with coral, fish, sea plants, and other marine animals.

Here you'll find some of the most colorful reef ecosystems on Earth.

Sophie Dove, The Director of the Coral Reef Ecosystem lab of the Global Change Institute, commented that:

The temperate reef ecosystems with scattered corals are being displaced by a tropical coral - dominated ecosystem.

The study, in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, predicts that isolated reef ecosystems like that around the Seychelles will suffer the most from global warming - caused bleaching events.