The back reef includes the shallow lagoon between the shore and coral reef. This habitat includes small patches of corals, sea grass beds ... and calcareous red algae act as biological-cement ...

It was an obsession born of a memory of a submerged paradise with silver schools of fish, meadows of red sea whips ... The accounting includes 536 types of coral (more than half the world ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives ... is part of what makes it great. It hosts 5,000 types of mollusks, 1,800 species of fish, 125 kinds of sharks ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

Coral colonies are habitats and breeding grounds for many marine species, including sharks, manatees, dugongs, fish, sea urchins, molluscs and sea sponges. Types of Coral Reefs Fringing ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from Tel Aviv University, has discovered that the pathogen ...

The coral reef systems of the Al Wajh lagoon on the Red Sea, the world's fourth largest ... materials such as green concrete and other types of durable, reusable or recyclable materials, ideally ...