All along the coast of Madagascar are coral reefs.
But when the tide is low, you can see a coral reef on Nikumaroro Island.
Coral reefs are a great home for animals and plants.
It’s 2,600 kilometers long, and it’s the world’s largest coral reef – and coral is a living thing.
Look at the colors of this coral reef!
Scientists study the ecology of Madagascar to learn how the warmer ocean affects the coral reefs.
This is bad for coral, and so it’s bad for the animals on coral reefs, too.
He found it a literal sandbank, surrounded by a coral reef mostly submerged.
If this theory be correct, the absence of coral reefs round Trinidad may help to account for the fact stated by Mr. Joseph, that poisonous fish are unknown in that island.
They wound their way among coral reefs and low islands scarcely visible above the water-line.
This island is scarcely accessible by boats, on account of coral reefs that surround it.
Towards morning, he steered out from among the dangerous coral reefs, and ran south straight before the wind.
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For our analysis we conceive of thecoralreefresource as simply as possible.
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Ocular media transmission ofcoralreeffish- cancoralreeffish see ultraviolet light?
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These studies also raise questions about the biology of helminths ofcoralreeffishes in general.
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Strong evidence is found for the countervailing forces of product and labor market effects on the exploitation of acoralreeffishery.
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One group consists of small-scale artisanal fishermen who rely on the near-shore coastal resources (in particularly thecoralreef).
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Ocular media transmission ofcoralreeffish-cancoralreeffish see ultraviolet light?
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Local variability but landscape stability incoralreefcommunities following repeated hurricane impacts.
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Effects of a hurricane on two assemblages ofcoralreeffishes: multiple-year analysis reverses a false 'snapshot' interpretation.
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Maintenance of high diversity incoralreefcommunities.
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Diurnal variation in the abundance of parasitic gnathiid isopod larvae oncoralreeffish : its implications in cleaning interactions.
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Maintenance of high diversity incoralreeffish communities.
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For our purposes this is a very helpful approach, given the limits to data collection in a developing country, compounded by the complexity ofcoralreeffish stock assessment.
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Visual biology of hawaiiancoralreeffishes.
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It is alert to the need to provide protection for thecoralreeffishery.
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Such dependence on thecoralreeffishery is common in island states.
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