Sentence examples for reef tracts from inspiring English sources

Government Cut also bisects two reef tracts.

Nevertheless, the biodiversity decline was so severe that the marine ecosystem suffered a fundamental reorganization (Droser et al. 2000), and the vast reef tracts of the Middle Devonian disappeared from Earth's oceans for almost 100 million years.

In their research, Yates and her team found significant seafloor erosion in five large coral reef tracts near Florida and Hawaii and in the Caribbean.

Severe storms can strip the entire substrate [6], [7], [8] and affect large reef tracts while less intense storms may affect only fragile growth forms [9] and promote fragmentation that leads to rapid regeneration [10].

South of Cape Canaveral, a ridge system parallel to the shoreline of Florida exists along drowned coral reef tracts; these coral reefs and worm-tube and coquina-shell reefs in shallow water harbor many reef species.

Furthermore, A. formosa is ecologically and physiologically similar to other ecologically relevant Acropora species occurring in reef tracts around the world [ 22].

"These were the jewels of the Florida reef tract".

It consists of a discontinuous reef tract and associated clinostratified fore-reef slope.

Given the abundance of these species on Conch Reef and the magnitude of their nitrification rates, the majority of benthic nitrification on the Florida Keys outer reef tract probably occurs in sponges.

A correlation has been posited between the observed decline in coral reef coverage throughout the Florida Reef tract and the decline in fish species.

The tires then migrated shoreward and ran into a living reef tract, washed up on its slope and killed many things in their path.