coral reefs

基本解释

The fish are part of a living experiment to find out how different species affect the growth of noxious seaweed that can harm coral reefs.
这些鱼是活体动物实验中的一部分，用来找出不同物种怎样来影响可能会损害珊瑚礁的有毒海藻的生长。
But at the rate things are going, by the end of this century, we may well have wiped out half of them, especially in tropical forests and coral reefs.
但从物种灭绝的速度来年，在这个世纪末，我们就有可能失去它们中的一半，尤其是在热带雨林和珊瑚礁地区。
They compared the number of new genera that firstappeared in coral reefs with those in other shallow-water environmentsand found the reefs were responsible for about 50% more.
他们比较了首次出现在珊瑚礁以及首次出现在浅水环境的新生物种数量，发现因珊瑚礁产生的新物种约多50%。

America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,NOAA, says the coral reefs that exist today are up to fifty million years old.
The report says international law has failed to protect coral reefs and the tropical fish that live among them from collectors.
They are home to millions of species of sea life that depend on coral reefs for their survival.

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珊瑚礁
This corresponds to a mean apparent crustal uplift rate of 0.05mm/a. In Northwestern South China Sea,neotectonic movement recorded in coral reefs mainly includes volcanic activity,vertical movement and earthquake activity. In reef region,volcanism was active in Quaternary,but has ceased now.
南海西北部珊瑚礁记录所反映的新构造运动主要有火山活动、地壳升降运动和地震活动等。
珊瑚礁海岸