Sentence examples for sections of the reef from inspiring English sources

Such practices scour or break up sections of the reef, destroying the corals and the numerous individual habitats they provide.

In another bitter slice of irony, Hughes says that the central and southern sections of the reef probably "dodged a bullet" but this was only thanks to the cooling influence of the tail-end of the same weather system that caused the devastating cyclone in Fiji.

A tropical cyclone in early March cooled off the central and southern sections of the reef.

"There are definitely sections of the reef under pressure," Fitzpatrick said.

The species is indigenous, but due to a range of human-led changes in the environment it's seasonally breeding in vast numbers and ingesting large sections of the reef.

This year excessively high temperatures combined with still, clear conditions literally cooked large sections of the reef's coral, with only seven percent unaffected by bleaching.

Will Steffen, one of the scientific reviewers of the axed section on the reef, said Australia's move was reminiscent of "the old Soviet Union".

Storms and currents had ravaged much of this section of the reef, but skilled dive masters can unearth unseen gems.

Scientists report that the same scenes are being replicated along a 1,000km section of the reef, more than a third of its total expanse.

The headline on this article was amended on 4 June 2016 to clarify that most of the coral was dead in parts of the central section of the reef, not the central section as a whole.

There was no temperature respite for that coral to bounce back after the bleaching, and almost one quarter of the reef's corals died, including two-thirds of the corals in the 700km northern section of the reef.