Sentence examples for reefs reefs from inspiring English sources

Indo-Pacific coral reefs Reefs in the tropical western Pacific are the world's most diverse.

A monitoring program of Brazilian coral reefs (Reef Check Brazil, http://reefcheck.org) aims to establish the baselines for the conservation units national monitoring program that protect these ecosystems (this has now more than five years of sampling data).

One mid shelf reef (Reef 19131) in the Whitsundays lost coral due to a storm in 1997, and then coral bleaching in 2002 took coral cover to a new low before recovery had been completed.

Unlike the Great Barrier Reef, those reefs are much deeper, and evolved in an isolated way.

These segments can come from wild reef colonies, damaged reefs or from previously "fragged" mature corals.

For example, artificial reefs known as reef balls have been installed at Hunts Point Landing in the Bronx.

Apart from the unknown fluorescent lives of reefs, entire reef systems exist that have never been seen by human eyes.

English naturalist Charles Darwin concluded in 1842 that barrier reefs began as reefs fringing the land around which they now form a barrier and that oceanic atoll reefs began as reefs fringing a volcanic island.

They are distributed in tropical seas of the Indo-Pacific and may be found among a diversity of reefs: shallow flats, deep reefs and reefs both offshore and situated near the mouths of rivers.

This is bad for fishing and tourism but not necessarily fatal to all the reefs: bleached reefs may be recolonised by new corals.

I know there are many folks out there, both scientists and otherwise, who are also desperately worried for the reef – and reefs worldwide – and share this frustration.