coral reefs

基本解釋

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.
這些魚是活體動物實驗中的一部分，用來找出不同物種怎樣來影響可能會損害珊瑚礁的有毒海藻的生長。
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.
但從物種滅絕的速度來年，在這個世紀末，我們就有可能失去它們中的一半，尤其是在熱帶雨林和珊瑚礁地區(qū)。
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.
他們比較了首次出現在珊瑚礁以及首次出現在淺水環(huán)境的新生物種數量，發(fā)現因珊瑚礁產生的新物種約多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.
南海西北部珊瑚礁記錄所反映的新構造運動主要有火山活動、地殼升降運動和地震活動等。
珊瑚礁海岸