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Elad Nehoray Rachmilovitz, Jacob Douek and Baruch Rinkevich
The successful management of coral reefs necessitates understanding the genetic characteristics of reefs? populations since levels of genetic diversity play a critical role in their resilience, enabling them to withstand environmental changes with greate...
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Brianna LeFebre, Phil Saye and James S. Henkel
Coral reef rehabilitation in the Caribbean is of major ecological and economic importance in the West Indies. Local organizations in Grenada constructed a cement pyramid artificial reef structure with rugosity (termed ?The Pyramid?) and placed a number o...
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Jinchao Wang, Qijun Guo, Wei Chen and Houceng Liu
In order to more accurately realize the automatic identification and quantitative characterization of coral reef multi-scale pore structure, this paper has carried out such research. On the basis of using multiple information acquisition technology, it c...
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Yaniv Shmuel, Yaron Ziv and Baruch Rinkevich
The three-dimensional structural complexities generated by living sessile organisms, such as trees and branching corals, embrace distinct communities of dwelling organisms, many of which are adapted to specific niches within the structure. Thus, characte...
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Yuanjie Li, Zuozhi Chen and Jun Zhang
To improve the overall understanding of the fish diversity and spatial patterns of major coral reefs in the South China Sea, fish assemblage composition, dominant species, biodiversity indices, and multivariate analysis of community structure were report...
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Jianhua Kang, Hala F. Mohamed, Xinming Liu, Lulu Pei, Shuhong Huang, Xiangyuan Lin, Xinqing Zheng and Zhaohe Luo
Cyanobacteria occupy an extraordinarily diverse array of ecological niches in coral reefs because they play multifaceted roles, including primary carbon and nitrogen fixation, calcification, nutrient cycling, and oxygen production, as well as coral reef ...
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Miguel C. Leon, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Iván Santiago and William H. McDowell
Streams and rivers of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, have been the subject of extensive watershed and aquatic research since the 1980s. This research includes understanding stream export of nutrients and coarse particulate organic matter,...
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Mohammad Ghiasian, Jane Carrick, Claire Bisson, Brian K. Haus, Andrew C. Baker, Diego Lirman and Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos
Coral reefs function as submerged breakwaters providing wave mitigation and flood-reduction benefits for coastal communities. Although the wave-reducing capacity of reefs has been associated with wave breaking and friction, studies quantifying the relati...
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Ana Gomes, José L. S. Pinho, Tiago Valente, José S. Antunes do Carmo and Arkal V. Hegde
Coastal defence works, such as breakwaters, are structures that aim to support the action of waves and dissipate their energy. Therefore, they provide conditions for stabilizing the coast, protecting ports, beaches and other coastal infrastructures and e...
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Cuiping Kuang, Yue Ma, Xuejian Han, Shunqi Pan and Lei Zhu
For observation on the influence mechanism of environmentally and aesthetically friendly artificial submerged sand bars and reefs in a process-based way, a set of experiments was conducted in a 50 m-long flume to reproduce the cross-shore beach morphodyn...
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