The present paper proposes a comprehensive assessment model for coral reef island carrying capacity (CORE-CC) which comprises dimensions of resources supply, environmental assimilative, ecosystem services, and socio-economic supporting. According to the characteristics of the coral reef islands, the core...
Deep water non-symbiotic coral, Lophelia pertusa (USGS Public Domain), (c) Annelid worm skeletal borer (Photo: OHG), (d) Bumphead Parrotfish (Flickr – Jenny Huang), (e) Non-carbonate coral reef at Cocos Island, Costa Rica (Photo: OHG), and Carbonate coral reefs at Heron Island (Pho...
Surveys carried out on 4 selected sites around the island revealed different extents of bleaching. The highest percentage of complete bleaching was 21.6% at Le Bouchon in the south, while the highest percentage of partial bleaching was 55.7% at Ile aux Benitiers in the southwest. The bleaching ...
Full size image Prey diversity rarefaction curves in the Gulf of Oman showed thatE. pulcher, a purportedly herbivorous species67, ingested the widest variety of animal prey (COI marker), followed byE. ventermaculus(Supplementary Fig.3). For both species, Gulf of Oman populations consumed a high...
thecoralisland：珊瑚岛 THE CORAL ISLAND R. M. Ballantyne Three boys, Ralph (the narrator), Jack and Peterkin, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is perfect; food, in the shape of ...
Theory of Island Biogeography.(MPB-1); Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, USA, 2015; Volume 1. [Google Scholar] Weinberg, S. A comparison of coral reef survey methods. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 1981, 51, 199–218. [Google Scholar] Bianchi, C.; Pronzato, R.; Cattaneo-Vietti,...
Open kitchen to living/dining room with huge island that is great entertaining. Impact sliding doors lead out to the yard. 1 bedroom with 1 bathroom on the first floor. Room of the kitchen can be an office, gym or storage room. 4 bedrooms upstairs , each bedroom has a bathroom. ...
The field work was carried out around Chumbe Island (Zanzibar) from December 2011 until February 2012. The aims were to determine the fish community composition in East African tropical waters, especially in a coral reef and in a seagrass bed. The influence of temporal pattern was surveyed ...
Geomorphological and paleoclimatic implications of soil development from siliceous materials on the coral-reef terraces of Liuchiu Island in southern Taiwan View full textDownload full text Free access DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2010.548308 Chang-Ho Chenga, Shih-Hao Jienb, Heng Tsaic & Zeng-Yei Hseua...
Harrison PL, Dalton SJ, Carroll AG (2011) Extensive coral bleaching on the world’s southernmost coral reef at Lord Howe Island, Australia. Coral Reefs 30:775 CrossRef Hoegh-Guldberg O, Salvat B (1995) Periodic mass-bleaching and elevated sea temperatures: bleaching of outer reef slope commu...