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Artificial Reefs: The Importance of Comparisons with Natural Reefs
Fisheries, 1997Abstract Methods used to evaluate the performance of an artificial reef will vary according to the purpose for which the reef was built. To determine how well artificial reefs mitigate losses due to human activities on natural reefs, the performance of artificial reefs should be evaluated using contemporaneous comparisons with relatively undisturbed ...
Mark A. Hixon, Mark H. Carr
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Rebuilding coral reefs: does active reef restoration lead to sustainable reefs?
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2014The coral reefs worldwide are exposed to multiple anthropogenic threats and persisting global change impacts, causing continuous degradation, also calling for the development of novel restoration methodologies. Of the most promising emerging approaches, deriving its rationale from silviculture, is the low-cost ‘gardening concept’, guided by a two-step ...
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The mid-shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef
2007Introduction The evolutionary classification for coral reefs of Hopley (1982), although applied elsewhere, was initially devised specifically for the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The classification (Figs. 5.6 and 5.7, Table 5.3) shows antecedent platforms being recolonized, with reef growth during initial juvenile stages being largely ...
Scott G. Smithers +2 more
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Science, 1982 2014
Abstract Coral reefs are tropical ecosystems but show global patterns. The Caribbean has about 60 reef-building coral species, while Southeast Asia has nearly 1,000, this number broadly diminishing with distance east and west from the Southeast Asian region. Diversity of corals also diminishes broadly with distance north and south of the
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Abstract Coral reefs are tropical ecosystems but show global patterns. The Caribbean has about 60 reef-building coral species, while Southeast Asia has nearly 1,000, this number broadly diminishing with distance east and west from the Southeast Asian region. Diversity of corals also diminishes broadly with distance north and south of the
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