Their surrounding reef ecosystems also provide food and building materials for island inhabitants.

By targeting calcifying organisms, ocean acidification threatens the health of reef ecosystems as a whole.

This list is used to make sure nothing will be dumped in the ocean and disturb or damage the coral reef ecosystems.

The Misali Island area represents a reef ecosystem with high biodiversity and socio-economic value.

This pattern is often identified in aquatic and coral reef ecosystems.

Soon the reef takes on the appearance and utility of a natural reef ecosystem rather than a man-made one.

Global warming may have triggered the collapse of reef ecosystems throughout the tropics.

Their results, they say, show that concerns about the impact of climate change on reef ecosystems is justified.

In all likelihood (save some freak, momentous reversal of fortune) our contemporary reef ecosystems will not survive.

Most of today's reef ecosystems developed after that.