Sentence examples for stable substrate from inspiring English sources

Thus, they can only provide a stable substrate for coral settlement once dead and 'cemented' onto stable substrate by crustose coralline algae (CCA).

Thus, once coralliths have reached a critical mass and created a stable substrate, settlement by other coral species enables self-perpetuating engineering of stable substrate for further corals to colonize.

Herein, we examined whether coralliths can (1) grow to 'stable' dimensions in a reef environment dominated with rubble, and (2) act as stable substrate for further coral colonization.

Z is an example of a large, static coral with suspected corallith origins (given lack of stable substrate in area) that has reached critical mass and is immobile.

These species form free-living 'coralliths' (a), which increase in size until a critical threshold is reached and no further movement occurs, creating a stable substrate for the settlement of other species (b,c).

Piers serve the same purpose as piles but are not installed by hammers and, if based on a stable substrate, will support a greater load than a pile.

Sheet sands are also found in basin floor positions and at the toes of graded (unconfined) slopes associated with stable substrates.

A new, easily scalable reactor for trifluoromethylation of carbon-rich thermally stable substrates has been designed, built, and tested in this work.

From the analysed samples, it resulted that the enamelling approach works well on thermally stable substrates and creates a strong bond, characterized by a compositional gradient, with alumina substrates.

Otherwise, the angle between spur dike and river bank need be analyzed to generate the appropriate flow regime which can prevent the stable substrates from being buried by sands.

Foliose and fruticose lichens may colonize later in succession because they require stable substrates (Belnap and Eldridge 2001).