The Red Sea resorts, now making a play for winter sun business, has crystal clear waters and coral reef full of technicoloured fish. |
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Two months ago a 50,000 tonne Filipino bulk oil carrier ran aground on a pristine section of coral reef in the Torres Strait. |
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Focusing on life around an Indo-Pacific coral reef, the exhibit will house one of the largest, most diverse shark collections in North America. |
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Yet on a remote Pacific atoll they've been indirectly responsible for safeguarding a thriving coral reef ecosystem. |
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He cleverly fashions a raft and paddles out to the coral reef for some spear fishing. |
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In the dry season Castara Bay is superlatively clear, with a healthy coral reef beginning about 50 yards offshore. |
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One of these species, a ramose form with thin branches, was not found in the coral reef zone lower in the section. |
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For a moment, I envisage us grating across a coral reef, or running aground on a sandbank. |
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The blackcap basslet, a relative of the large species of groupers, uses its bulging eyes to find food while it scavenges on the coral reef. |
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Most coral reef fishes have a bipartite life cycle, with a dispersing pelagic larval phase and a relatively sedentary reef resident phase. |
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Despite the astonishing abundance of echinoid spines in the coral reef horizon, echinoid tests were not found here. |
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It is uncertain whether coral reef ecosystems are oceanic sources or sinks of carbon dioxide. |
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Made up of more than 1,000 coral reef islands, the Maldives itself is a magic place created by the Gods. |
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Most tun shells can be found living in sand, in the tropics beyond the edge of the coral reef. |
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The depletion of coral reef habitats and marine aquarium fishes has presented a relatively new market in aquaculture. |
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It had been almost 10 years since I last put on a pair of goggles and a snorkel to see the wonders of Queensland's coral reef. |
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The underside of the ice acts like an upside-down coral reef, providing young krill both food and shelter. |
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A coral reef approximately a mile from the coast surrounds the island with a shallow lagoon. |
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Temporal relationships between organic carbon production and respiration are not well understood in coral reef ecosystems. |
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In Japan, decapods associated with coral reef deposits were described in Miocene and Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks. |
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The protected coral reef is close enough to shore to explore in safety with a snorkel. |
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It has a chronic waste problem with garbage and sewerage littering the edges of the coral reef that forms the island. |
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Looks like a coral reef cut into deeply fissured rectangles that reveal fossils. |
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Landing at Mauritius offers stunning views over the blue and green waters of the Indian Ocean and the deep hues of the coral reef. |
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There is no coral reef as such, but there are plenty of soft corals, sponges, gorgonia and some very colourful sea pens. |
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Finally, there's a sweeping vista of a white beach fringed with coconut palms, with a pristine coral reef. |
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Sea snakes are among the most poisonous creatures in the coral reef areas, described by scientists to rival a cobra. |
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The Caribbean boasts the highest coral reef diversity in the Atlantic Ocean, but this is only equivalent to the least diverse regions of the Indo-Pacific. |
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Some Navy bombs never exploded when fired, dropping instead into the shallow ocean water and remaining there, lying on the coral reef or resting on the ocean floor. |
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The rainbow of life in a coral reef is founded on the partnership between polyps and algae. |
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Live coral reef fish, from the Great Barrier Reef and Pacific Island nations, are airfreighted to Asia for restaurants, where they fetch large prices as status symbols. |
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Natural channel created on the coral reef, it allows waters from the lagoon to mix up with the ocean. |
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This study analyzes data collected on coral reefs in the Florida Keys, which is the only shallow water coral reef tract on the continental shelf of North America. |
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Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible. |
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Beautiful oceans is an organisation involved in educating divers and snorkelers on coral reef preservation. |
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After the breakfast, still take advantage of this paradisiac place and its coral reef. |
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You can scuba dive along the world's second largest coral reef or swim in fresh water pools in submerged caverns, known as cenotes. |
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A remarkable natural gift, the Great Barrier Reef is blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the world's largest coral reef. |
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It lies between a well-sheltered, deepwater harbour, accessible to ships through a break in the coral reef, and a semicircle of mountains. |
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Marine ecology is founded partly on coral reef ecology, so I can say with confidence that corals provide habitat for fish. |
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Children learn to appreciate the biodiversity of a coral reef and how to make sure that the coral they buy has been harvested legally. |
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It revealed the existence of the coral reef type of formation which is typical of the rich West Texas area. |
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It is important that coral reef fish for example blend in with the bright colours of the reef. |
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These gentle underwater giants feed on the bright coral reef between April and June. |
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Our individual values have been formed little by little, like a coral reef. |
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To allow an easier access for windsurfers, a section of the coral reef of an island of the Caribbean was blowed up. |
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There was significantly greater population density of holothurians when a coral reef was adjacent to the mangroves than a shoreline with coral reef alone or mangroves alone. |
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Home to exquisite beaches, blistering sunshine and the second largest coral reef in the world, Cozumel is also a magnet for serious sun-worshippers and scuba divers. |
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So obviously when you have a tremendous coral reef and the combination of shallow banks, you have a fantastic habitat for all types of marine life. |
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With no natural protection from the sea, apart from a narrow coral reef, the atoll was at the mercy of massive waves that crashed over its 30-metre high seaward cliffs. |
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The finding that mangroves serve as crucial nurseries for coral reef fish highlights another reason to conserve these rapidly disappearing habitats. |
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In their coral reef habitat, the green sea turtles have a symbiotic interaction with reef fish, including the yellow tang. |
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Other organisations as Practical Action have released informational documents on how to set up coral reef restoration to the public. |
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The manual is intended to help reef managers understand and conduct baseline socio-economic assessments of coral reef stakeholders, which will complement the marine information already being collected. |
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Egg cases of the blackmouth catshark were found on the Mingulay coral reef complex in the Outer Hebrides. |
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The net effect of fishing practices on global coral reef populations is suggested by many scientists to be alarmingly high. |
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An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island. |
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However, it is somewhat protected from the full force of a hurricane by the coral reef that surrounds the island. |
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In many coastal areas and coral reef systems, fishing effort has already made this shift so that any gains in productivity would have to come from improved management. |
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The initial focus is on coral reef education by developing awareness among stakeholders such as hotels, dive shops, tour guides, tourists, marinas, and local authorities about the local and global importance of coral reefs. |
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As the main attraction of the Maldives is it natural environment, all tourist resorts implement strict measures to preserve and maintain the environment the flora and fauna of the coral reef island ecology. |
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When the boat approached the coral reef, Nathan dove into the water. |
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In keeping with emerging issues and the updated module and manual, this course may focus on coral reef issues such as resilience, as well as climate change adaptation and marine invasive species. |
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Comparative efficacy of clove oil and other chemicals in anaesthetization of Pomacentrus amboinensis, a coral reef fish. |
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The waters of the Caribbean Sea host large, migratory schools of fish, turtles, and coral reef formations. |
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Wildlife of Djibouti is also listed as part of Horn of Africa biodiversity hotspot and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coral reef hotspot. |
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The northern coast is characterised by a number of coral reef systems that have been determined to be at risk. |
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The designated coral reef area should contain the greatest diversity of habitat types and successional stages possible, and also include the habitat types and successional stages of the associated systems. |
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The Tisler Reef in the Norwegian marine protection of Ytre Hvaler National Park is the largest known coral reef in Europe. |
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Near the airport, the government has built a few seawalls to hold back the water, but they use limestone that, with dynamite, they blast out of the coral reef. |
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Finally, coral reef POM constitutes a source of OM for planktonic invertebrates and planktonophagous fish. |
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We took one of the daily 90-minute trips out to a coral reef, and after the skipper moored the hotel catamaran to prepare a delicious barbecue lunch, we snorkelled around in the sparkling pin-clear sea. |
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In what ways is cyberculture a mould, a cyberstructure, as a technology-as-process, perhaps one akin to a coral reef that grows, is eaten away, regrows? |
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Species living in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Northern Sea had similar encephalisation indices compared to the indopacific coral reef dwelling species. |
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Traditionality of mating-site preferences in a coral reef fish. |
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Site fidelity and homing behaviour in coral reef cardinalfishes. |
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Indonesia is one of Coral Triangle countries with the world's greatest diversity of coral reef fish with more than 1,650 species in eastern Indonesia only. |
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Eemian disconformity in a fossil coral reef on Great Inagua, The Bahamas. |
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Among the subjects she has chosen to go on display are a sea turtle, otters, a white tip shark, a coral reef, a kelp forest, a lion fish and a sea snake. |
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Ours involved being stalked for half an hour by three Pinnate Spadefish in the Maldives as we navigated the underground gardens of a coral reef, 12m below sea. |
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