Research Paper Materializing as individual forms of fossil records for over 400 million years, coral are known to be a highly archaic animal which many believed evolved into contemporary reef-construction that formed for the last 25 million years. Considered the biggest framework on earth, the biological origin and heterogeneous system provides the longest growth within the ecological community. A coral reef resonates thousands of years of historical/scientific data; and provides the greatest order
know the great barrier reef exists. Captain James Cook was the first person to record the existence of a reef as he sailed up the eastern coast. He first noticed shoals in the area of the Great Keppel Island. Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer who was the first to explore the entire Australian coastline and named the Extensive Barrier Reef, today known as The Great Barrier Reef. The name is unique because it describes exactly what the Great Barrier Reef is. It is considered
Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse of shallow water marine ecosystems and highly valued ocean resources. Corals are Anthozoans, the largest class of organisms within the phylum Cnidaria. Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, body is radially symmetrical, multicellular, and mostly carnivorous some are filter feeders, exhibit planktonic larva that lives in aquatic and marine environments.. Two general body forms exist, medusa and polyp. Medusa having an umbrella shaped body they are
have ever seen pictures of coral reefs such as this one? I’m sure many of you have appreciated the beauty of the reefs in some way, but I’m sure you didn't know about their value to both the economy and the ecosystem. While it is hard to put a dollar value on the benefits of coral reefs, according to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) it is estimated that coral reefs provide a worldwide annual income of 30 billion dollars EVERY YEAR. These reefs are not only eye candy, but
defined in the Great Barrier Reef. In the early 2000’s, Marian Chertow wrote a paper defining the I=PAT equation and I will apply her definition to the Great Barrier Reef. The final product of the equation is I, which stands for human impact on the system and is a result of population (P), affluence (A), and technology (T). The population that affects the Great Barrier Reef is very difficult to define accurately. There are two main groups that have direct impact on the reef and that would be the fishing
Background of study Corals are the foundation species of tropical coral reef ecosystems. They directly facilitate thousands of associated species by generating the physically complex reef structure (Bruno & Bertness, 2001). Coral reefs are the underwater ecosystems were held together by calcium carbonate structures which is secreted by corals and also are the most diverse and beautiful of all marine habitats. Often called "rainforests of the sea", this is because coral reef ecosystem occupy less than
consequences which not also hardly to deal with but also affect directly to the environment. Oil spill is one of them and it wastes the vital and exhausted fossil. Especially, it kills our nature; part of it is the diverse coral reef. According to the International Coral Reef Information Network, a quarter of
Data was taken from 270 coral reefs over a span of 12 years and was found in the Southwestern Indian Ocean. The biomass is the measure of living matter in a given living space such as the fish biomass located in the Southern Indian Ocean. The fish biomass grew about 600 kilograms per hectare which is defined as 100 by 100 meters. Conservation policy was established to protect the biomass of the fish and to focus on the hotspots. The Southwestern Indian Ocean was a hotspot that was important. According
the great barrier reef. This is the largest living structure and coral reef system in the entire world. The great barrier reef sprawls over a dumbfounding 344 400 square kilometres. This is an area so large it can be seen from space and its complex system is filled with more than 300 coral cays, 600 tropical islands and 3 000 individual reef systems. This system provides a refuge for an astounding variety of marine plants and animals which range from ancient turtles, families of reef fish, 134+ species
The Belize Barrier Reef is included in the Mesoamerican Reef System, which stretches from the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula to Honduras and Guatemala. It is located in the Caribbean Sea in the Mesoamerican region in Central America. It has a latitude of 16° 50' 10.5" N and a longitude of 88° 1' 0" W. The Barrier reef is approximately 300 kilometres and consists of boundless geographic features including barrier reefs, fringing reefs, sand and mangrove cays, estuaries and lagoons. However, the focus of