'Reefs' presentation slideshows

The Global Ecosystem

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Status and Trends of Coral Reefs and Impacts of Climate Change on Reefs

Status and Trends of Coral Reefs and Impacts of Climate Change on Reefs. Clive Wilkinson Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. CORAL REEFS are. Biodiversity Extremely high biodiversity Highest in SE Asia W Pacific The Coral Triangle

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Tropical Reefs: Coral/Algal

Tropical Reefs: Coral/Algal. Diversity and Challenges. Questions:. Why are tropical reefs comparable to rain forests in diversity? Dissolved nutrients are scarce Productivity & diversity normally go together Why are tropical reefs disappearing?. Increasing threats to coral.

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Succession in Reefs

Succession in Reefs. 4 stages : Pioneering or Stabilization a. Accumulation of skeletal debris b. Creation of a surface with some relief. Succession in Reefs. 2. Colonization a. Branching & encrusting organisms b. Low diversity. Succession in Reefs. Diversification

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Professor Brent Wilson FGS Petroleum Geoscience Programme, Department of Chemical Engineering,

In Praise of High Resolution Ecostratigraphy ! or The Palaeoenvironmental Significance of Foraminifera in the Upper Quaternary of ODP Hole 1006A, Santaren Strait, Offshore Western Bahama Platform. Professor Brent Wilson FGS

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Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs. By: Alica Majercinova Geography 12. What is Coral. Corals are tiny animals, called polyps Each coral has a stony cup of limestone around itself as a skeleton As they grow, the polyps divide and form coral colonies

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Vulnerability of coral reefs

Vulnerability of coral reefs. Janice Lough. Moving reefs out of comfort zone. Hoegh-Guldberg et al 2007. Outline Coral Reefs. key coastal ecosystem many different reef types narrow environmental limits already shown impacts, e.g. bleaching combined effects of disturbances

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Earth Science 13.2B Paleozoic Era : Life explodes

Earth Science 13.2B Paleozoic Era : Life explodes. Paleozoic Era : Life Explodes : Part B. Paleozoic Era: Devonian period. Devonian Earth: (416-359) During the Devonian period, jawed fishes and sharks evolved in the seas.

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Vulnerability of coral reefs

Vulnerability of coral reefs. Presented by Janice Lough. Authors.

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Reefs

Reefs. Kinds of buildups Geographic distribution Reef requirements Community: diversity, environmental mediators, species of great affect The Sensitive Reef Reefs and Geologic Time. Reef requirements: 1. Coral reefs are rigid structures above the sea floor.

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What Every Pacific Island Leader Should Know About Climate Change

What Every Pacific Island Leader Should Know About Climate Change. Robert H. Richmond, Ph.D. Kewalo Marine Laboratory Pacific Biosciences Research Center University of Hawaii at Manoa. Importance of Coral Reefs. Approximately 30% of Reefs Have Been Negatively Impacted by Human Activities.

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Recovery of Maldivian reefs 12 years after coral mortality

Recovery of Maldivian reefs 12 years after the coral mortality of 1998

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11 th International Coral Reef Symposium SOUTH FLORIDA July 7-11, 2008 REEFS FOR THE FUTURE

11 th International Coral Reef Symposium SOUTH FLORIDA July 7-11, 2008 REEFS FOR THE FUTURE. Presentation for ICRI meeting Richard E. Dodge, Chair LOC October 31, 2005. In 2004 the USCRTF & State of Florida formally endorsed a bid to host the:.

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Coral Reefs

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Rolph Payet, 2003

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Mangrove Swamps

Mangrove Swamps. Characterized by salt-tolerant evergreen trees protect coastlines from erosion, filter pollutants from the water and are home and food for a variety of organisms. Some have aerial roots that collect oxygen not available in the mud. Some excrete salt in their leaves.

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Geology 103 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Tim Horner Geology Department, CSU Sacramento

SACRAMENTO. STATE. Geology 103 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Tim Horner Geology Department, CSU Sacramento. Lecture #24: Modern reefs, Ancient reefs (reefs through time) Reading assignments: Boggs, 5 th ed., pp. 323-327. Energy, facies and coral forms in reefs:.

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Cold-Water Coral Reefs

UNEP Coral Reef Unit (CRU) Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI) UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. Cold-Water Coral Reefs. UNEP Coral Reef Unit (CRU) Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI)

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