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physical damage and diminishing light conditions from runoff. Climate change, herbivore declines, disease and overfishing, along with anthropogenic impacts from coastal development, run-off, eutrophication, and aquaculture have caused declines in coral reefs and mangrove systems. These three systems are interconnected and when one system is impacted, secondary impacts are observed in the other systems; coastal ecosystems will be adversely effected and decline. Additional research, conservation, and ways

Across the world’s beautiful oceans, there is a vast and marvelous selection of coral reefs all of which house copious species of coral. Many of these coral are the key element in a marine ecosystem by providing food, shelter and protection for the underwater community. However, this ecosystem is threatened due to the events of coral bleaching, as this event kills the coral and the creatures dependent on them. Without coral, these creatures will become more vulnerable and may be at risk of endangerment

contains all different kinds of sharks, which is highly unusual due to their over hunting and fishing. The reserve also contains some coral reef, which is why it is very important and needs to be protected. The reserve is now a no-take zone, which means there is absolutely no fishing at all. I found this article interesting because the idea of protecting the coral reefs and fish, including sharks, from overfishing and the possibility of seafloor mining due to the fishing industry, is imperative.

coral reefs; but coral isn’t only found in the shallows. Biologist Thomas Shirley and a group of scientist of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University conducted a deep sea coral expedition of the coast of Canada. By using a mini submersibles to closely study deep sea coral and compare them to shallow water corals; Shirley learning that deep sea corals grows anywhere from one and a half meters to three meters high in large pastures. Also deep sea coral form colonies instead of reefs like

replied as Willy the whale waved goodbye and swam away. Sammy the seahorse lived inside the coral reef that was every imaginable color of the rainbow. Would you like to see my home Gemma? Oh yes please I would so very much love to see your home. Let 's get going, there is so much for you to see and explore. Hop on and hold tight said Sammy, and I shall show you my home among the beautiful coral reef. Gemma was absolutely amazed as she shouted out to Sammy, this is just like the rainbows we have

Food Matters: Film Review Food Matters is a 2008 documentary about the kinds of foods that people are consuming. It discusses the western diet that we have grown accustomed to with the processed, sugary, and fatty laden foods that is causing our disease state to increase every day. This documentary also explores how food can be the healing medicine to our bodies. The popular quote by Hippocrates on the front says “let thy food by thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food”. Our bodies are extremely

measure is complicated because the effect of ocean acidification on the rates of calcium produced by marine organisms is extremely variable and its species specific. Since scientists incline to use local and site-specific field measurements, treating reef environments and open sea environments separately, their measurements reflect the local response of individual organisms to elevated CO2 levels, leaving out the overall picture. RESEARCH Increasing concentrations of CO2 in the world 's oceans has

NOTE: I KNOW IT’S TOO LONG I glanced up at the Moon, shining its radiant light on the blue, tiled, glossy deck of the cruise ship. This was my first time on a cruise and I was going to enjoy it to its fullest. A light breeze stirs up ripples on the peaceful water of the pool. The moon centers itself in the night sky. I forgot a towel and it’s freezing out of the water so I’m currently trapped in the pool. Tomorrow would be the first day we dock at some island(at least I think it’s an island)

Family Sporolithaceae Verheij, 1993 Genus Sporolithon Heydrich, 1897 (Former name: Archaeolithothamnium Rothpletz, 1891) Sporolithon sp. Morphology: Encrusting thallus of 170 – 190 µm in diameter. It is rarely recorded as fruticose growth forms. Vegetative anatomy: Crustose dorsiventeral and monomerous thalli with rounded protuberance measuring 150µm in height. The core filaments is commonly thin plumose with cell filaments measuring 13 – 27 µm in length and 10 – 15 µm in diameter. Cell fusion are

Case Study Brazil gains the most of their ocean fishier-yields from the southernmost subtropical shelf. The shelf has seasonal currents of nutrient filled ocean water and yields more fish than other areas due the other surrounding waters being lower in nutrients. In 2009, Brazil produced less than one percent of the world’s production of fish at 585 thousand tons of fish per year (Brandini, 2013). Even with the low nutrient filled waters, Brazil boasts coasts with diverse ecosystems due to the length