Sentence examples for as building reef from inspiring English sources

Scientists refer to this as building reef resilience.

The corals and stromatoporoids were extremely important for building reef facies.

Among marine life-forms, mollusks (primarily bivalves [pelecypods] and gastropods) became highly diversified, as did reef-building corals characteristic of the tropical belt.

Throughout the tropics where reefs are accessible, coral skeletons are used as building material, either in blocks or slaked to create cement.

Coral reefs on land provide lime for use as building blocks ("coral rag").

B) "As building materials".

Eventually, movements such as Building with Nature, Working with Nature, and Flanders Bays started to emerge as approaches that placed ecological goals at the start of the planning process (Oyster Reefs and Delfland Coast cases).

Montipora taxonomy (as with all reef building coral) is based on skeletal morphology, which recent studies have shown can be remarkably variable, with surprising examples of convergent evolution [4], [5], rapid evolution [6], and phenotypic plasticity [7], [8].

As a reef-building coral, it helps form the three-dimensional structure of these ecosystems.

More ambitious tactics, like building artificial reefs for oysters to grow on, are a possibility.

The environmental gradients will affect the distribution of coastal marine systems such as those containing reef-building corals and Enhalus acoroides (see Appendix 2).