Reefs at risk: Coral reef protection. major threats like construction, farming, trash dumping and pollution, fishing, dynamite fishing, cyanide fishing, aquarium trade and fish farms, bombs and oil spills.
Reefs are overfished, bombed and poisoned, smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient
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Coral reefs: reef formation – coral reefs on earth – types of reefs – reef morphology – marine biology (characteristics, ecology and range, behavior of marine animals), underwater photography, links, books
Too much sediment in the water can smother the coral polyps and too much fresh water kills them.
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Print version of Wallacea – a transition zone from Asia to Australia, specially rich in marine life and on land. A biodiversity hotspot with many endemic species. About the naturalist Sir Alfred Russel Wallace who traveled in this area. Maps of Wallacea, the Indonesian Throughflow and the land bridge through Wallacea during the ice age.
are volcanic, the southern islands (Sumba, Savu, Roti and Timor) are uplifted coral limestone and sediment
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Coral reef protection: Major endangered reef regions – Hotspots (Biodiversity and Endemism). Why are reefs important?
Major threats are pollution from land-based sources, sediment pollution from logging, intensive destructive
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