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Coral Reefs - MarineBio.org
Tropical Coral Reefs Tropical Coral reefs are biotic reefs formed in tropical ...
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WWF - Coral reefs: tropical corals
Publications What You Can Do Coral reefs: tropical corals Australia's 2,000km-long Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. © WWF-Canon / Jürgen FREUND Tropical coral reefs are found between 30° north and south of the equator, in areas where surface water temperatures do not drop below 16°C. The total area of the world's tropical coral reefs ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Coral Reefs
The coldwater reefs are highly susceptible to deep-sea trawling and ocean acidification from climate change, which has its greatest impacts at high latitudes, while tropical reefs ...
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Coral Reefs
Coral Reefs Skip Navigation Situation Close-up view of a coral reef. A tropical fish takes shelter in a coral reef. ... Photos: Australia's Great Barrier Reef provides a home for many species of fish ... the organisms that live on coral reefs. Coral reefs are home to so many types of organisms that they are often called the "tropical rainforest of the ocean.” A loss in coral reef habitat can lead ...
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Coral Reefs
Coral Reefs Skip Navigation Anthrosphere In the last few decades more than 35 million acres of coral reefs have been lost. If that rate continues, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs might die within your lifetime. More than half of the world's coral reefs ... are cut down in tropical forests for logging, soil ...
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Eco-Pros Coral Communities
Coral Communities Eco-Pros Environmental Education on the Web CORAL COMMUNITIES Coral Communities Endangered Reefs Artificial Reefs Reef Resources Coral reefs are among the ocean's most complex and biologically diverse ... why you find coral reefs in shallow, warm tropical seas. After a very long period of time (thousands of years), these tiny coral animals can build massive reefs, and even build ...
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US Coral Reefs - Imperiled National Treasures
Clean, clear water is essential to their health. Once coral larvae ... Today, richly diverse coral reefs are found in the tropics along coastlines, on the margins of volcanic islands, and as isolated coral atolls. Why are coral reefs in peril? Coral reefs can be damaged by ...
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CHAMP - What are Coral Reefs? - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Coral_glossary.html [top] Where are corals and coral reefs found? Corals can be found throughout the world’s oceans, but reef-building corals are limited to oligotrophic (low nutrient) subtropical and tropical seas. Temperature and light are the primary factors which limit the growth of coral reefs. Coral reefs are restricted to a seawater ...
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Coral reefs of Hawai'i
Coral reefs are unique among marine communities. In addition to being spectacular displays of nature's creativity, coral reefs are reservoirs of biological diversity and are truly the "tropical rain forests of the sea." Coral reefs ...
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Coral reefs: a growing concern
To understand why mineral accretion works -- and why it's vital to coral survival -- it's important to understand what coral is, and why it is threatened. Coral reefs are created by tiny organisms -- coral ... 's coral reefs -- 75 per cent of which were adversely affected by last year's tropical heat wave. "This is an emergency," Goreau says bluntly. "Last year, heatstroke killed more coral than ...
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