coral reef

Belize is home to the world's second biggest coral reef, and visitors should take a boat trip out to see it.

One of the normal prodigies of the world, the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia is the world's largest coral reef.

When the regime could no longer refute the evidence, they finally approved rehabilitating the coral reef and making it into a marine refuge.

And they said they were having an exhibition about artists' response to global warming, and they'd like our coral reef to be part of it.

The island has a mountainous, nearly impenetrable interior, white-sand beaches, and famous blue lagoon defined by an offshore coral reef.

If you dunk your head in during spring or summer, though, when the males assume breeding hues, you might think you were near a coral reef.

The company was founded in 1988 and is currently the biggest coral reef in Zhejiang Province. Turquoise wholesale production base! !

If the system started to drift away from the requirements of a coral reef, Gomez would flush the trays.

DA: One would be when I first dived on a coral reef and I was able to move among a world of unrevealed complexity.

The two entities have continued to work together on other projects, such as incorporating satellite measurements on coral-reef bleaching.

"It's just a litany of bad actions, " says Brian Huse, the executive director of the Coral Reef Alliance.

Graham compares the effect to a coral reef, a self-generating ecosystem whose members provide nourishment for one another.

To survive the complex, often-dangerous environment of a coral reef, the colorful reef fish Neopomacentrus azysron has to be a clever fish.

Filled coral staining: is the texture of loose dendritic shallow coral reef filled with dye injection made of plastic form.

With its very large black spot, this speckled coral reef dweller looks like it has a bullseye tattoo.

Soft corals do not form reefs, but may be present in a coral reef ecosystem.

The remarkable natural richness of the coral reef has been squeezed further into the hyper-natural richness of a synthetic reef.

A coral reef near the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean showcases some of the enormous diversity found in the coral realm.

Lanikai beach is one of Hawaii's most famous beaches. Protected by a coral reef nearby, the water here is deep green, calm and peaceful.

The results of this research illustrated proportion, area, coordinates and distribution of various coral reef sea floors in research area.

Then we go to a small island with a coral reef 'in front of it. The friends of snorkeling will have again a great joy.

A school of striped grunt fish glides over a coral reef in the British Virgin Islands.

This is an unfortunate ecological coincidence, as one of the original compounds for sunscreen was synthesised from an Australian coral reef.

The geology of this island is volcanic, the coast line which encircles it is a coral reef, and its topography is rugged.

Woolenness and wetness aren't exactly two concepts that go together. Why not chisel a coral reef out of marble? Cast it in bronze.

The key to stabilizing a coral reef seemed to be getting the initial microbial matrix right.

The sea is full of colourful life that lives around the coral reef.

Tetiaroa consists of 13 white sand islets encircled by a coral reef which, from above, appears to shimmer like a turquoise amulet.

A US Navy minesweeper is stuck on a coral reef off the Philippines after running aground early on Thursday.

The Great Barrier Reef, the worlds largest coral reef system rich in sea life and sensitive to small temperature changes , is in trouble .

Living on a coral reef is a bit like living in a tanning bed.

Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network says many surviving reefs could be lost over the coming decades as CO2 emissions continue to increase.

This coral reef species feeds on a number of organisms, allowing it to thrive even when reefs are unhealthy.

We've already passed a safe threshold for coral reef ecosystems in terms of climate change.

This site is great for divers who love exploring the nooks and crannies of a complex coral reef structure.

After the death of the coral reef into the jade, is replaced by calcium carbonate process, a process called calcification.

It's like scuba diving into a coral reef, except you're going upward instead of downward.

For instance, an ingredient in sunscreen primes the growth of a deadly virus in coral reef.

Divers in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands spot a giant clam (Tridacna gigas) anchored to a coral reef.

Photo Gallery: Schools of Fish Seemingly fearless, butterfly fish in the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia swim around a coral reef.

these concentrations lie in coral reef ecosystems that , like their terrestrial counterparts , fall in the direct path of human actions.

Experts say a continuing reduction in coral reef populations will have harmful effects for people worldwide.

Close to Australia, in the Great Coral Barrier you can also find a coral reef in the shape of a heart.

I suddenly thought themselves to the camera linked to a coral reef on the side to play.

Largerthan every other national park in the U. S. combined, the monumentprotects 10% of the shallow coral reef habitat in U. S. territory.

At low tide, some form of coral reef island above water. 1981 list of World Natural Heritage List.

On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.

Evidences show that high sea surface temperature (SST) have close relationship with coral reef bleaching.

And the oceans are becoming more acidic, with probable negative consequences to many coral reef and calcium-bearing organisms.

Dive into the warm coastal waters of the coral reef and explore the mysteries of aquatic life!

That's where Walter Adey from the Smithsonian Institution was building a one-million-gallon ocean, coral reef, and lagoon.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

Boat trips to the Great Barrier Reef allow tourists to admire the largest coral reef in the world.

Nansha Islands waters is the main fishing ground of coral reef fishery industry of China, where there are abundant reef fishery resources.

Her first skipper was Jack Lewis , and her first patrol left her beached on a coral reef near Midway Island.

A coral reef consists of coral polyps, which are animals in the jellyfish family, along with algae called zooxanthellae.

And the Great Barrier Reef in Australia . The experts said that 95% coral reef would be killed by 2050.

Here is a selection of images showing nature has a heart too! A coral reef in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

This book introduces the life form of corals, the formation and distribution of coral reef and the importance of protecting them.

The Bali Barat National Park covers nearly all the coral reef and coastal waters.

A wide coral reef largely surrounds Sri Lanka's coastline making it ideal for diving.

The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.

atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef that has closely spaced islands on it encircling a lagoon.

It is a heavenly place, surrounded by a coral reef, explored for tourist purposes.

But if you go beyond the coral reef to a deep cave you will find the wise octopus. Maybe she can help you.

Walter Adey had about 1 percent attrition rate in his previous partially closed coral reef.

"The coral reef is an ecosystem in distress, " said Gore.

Coral reef fish play importance roles to maintain the health of coral reef ecosystem.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world, roughly parallel to the coast of Queensland, Australia, for almost 2, 000km.

can be divided into shallow coral reef and deep sea corals.

Christmastree worms shelter a goby (at left) in their coral reef habitat.

Great Barrier Reef - Great Barrier Reef, the longest of the world's largest coral reef.

A group of fish swims by a pristine coral reef along East Timor's East coast.

In 2006, severe bleaching struck the southern part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system in the world.

Now, see this strange, underwater, coral reef-looking thing?

They've entered the wonderful world of a coral reef.

Comment on "Coral reef calcification and climate change: The effect of ocean warming"

Greatest of all is the Great Barrier Reef, a vast complex of coral reef extending 2, 000km almost to Papua New Guinea.

Example : Beyond the coral reef the open sea is dark blue.

"We'relosing the coral in the coral reef, " said William Platt, a coral reef expert with NOAA.

The scuba diver submerged and swarm toward a coral reef.

Reply to comment by Kleypas et al. On "Coral reef calcification and climate change: The effect of ocean warming"

I wander above the coral reef, feet waggled.

A partly bleached coral reef is blindingly white next to healthy coral.

The largest mollusks on Earth, adult giant clams permanently affix themselves to surfaces such as sand or coral reef rubble.

I'm an ecologist, mostly a coral reef ecologist.

Each a coral reef is a luxury holiday hotel.

Coral reef in natural light, Fiji.

I don't like coral reef, because they are not cute at all. coral make me think about unpleasure things.

Actually, of course, it's a coral reef.

"Ifwe can't contain the CO2 problem and enact strong coral reef conservation measures, we will lose them, " says Carpenter.

Coral reef in New Caledonia. 100 percent of the coral may be wiped out before 2050 because of global warming.

The reef also features the highest diversity of coral reef fishes in the world.

Note the coral rubble in the foreground, which was created by the net dragging on the coral reef.

Technology is "alive" in the sense that a coral reef is alive.

For example, Bio2's coral reef would not have worked without an eerie backroom in the basement where the algae scrubbers hide.

but as he watched it grow in definiteness he saw that it was a coral reef smoking in the white pacific surges

Have you ever seen a coral reef? Have you ever seen starfish, sea horses or seaweed? They are beautiful.

The General Characteristics of the Coral Reef Ecosystem

Preparation of granular coral reef carrying silver and determination of its disinfection performance

Preliminary Study on Conditions of Coral Reef Ecological Environment along the Coast of Weizhou Island

Measuring and modeling water column effects on hyperspectral reflectance in a coral reef environment

Preliminary Study on Characteristics of Coral Reef Distribution and Environmental Protection in Weizhou Island

Composition and Distribution of Chondrichthyes in the Main Coral Reef Waters of the South China Sea

A study on sound velocity vertical variety in coral reef core and its indicating facies significance

The current situation and protection countermeasure of the coral reef in Hainan

Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem

Quantitative distribution of fish resources in main coral reef waters of Nansha Islands

Destruction and conservation countermeasures of coral reef in South China Sea

estuaries , mangrove , swamps , coral reef , rocky reef and sandy or muddy bottom

Eat only a small quantity of coral reef fish at any one meal;

Ecological Function and Protecting Development in Coral Reef of Xuwen County

Discussion on the sustainable utilization of coral reef fishery in South China Sea

Erosion Indicators on the Coral Reef Coast of the Pacific Islands

Ecological conservation and management of coral reef

Recent development in coral reef bleaching research

CDI; International Coral Reef Action Network;

Survey of Coral Reef Fish Resources of the Xisha Islands

Socio-economic investigation of coral reef protection and management

Characteristics of wave attenuation on the coral reef

Active faults in coral reef areas of southwestern South China Sea

Human action's affections on the ecosystem of horn coral reef in Xu Wen Deng Lou

Bioconstruction and Bioerosion During Biogeomorphologic Process of Coral Reef

The Conservation, Recovery and Development of Coral reef in Xuwen

Age and growth of Carcharhinus limbatus in waters of Nansha Islands coral reef

ICAM; ReefBase: a Global Database on coral Reef and their Resources;

CI; Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean;

study on trace metals in coral reef of daya bay , china

Biggest coral reef: Big barrier reef

A Review of Coral Reef Remote Sensing