The Ecology Of Coral Reefs

29/11/01


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The Ecology Of Coral Reefs

Coral Reef Ecosystems

So What Is Coral?

Energy Production

Thus corals get their colour from the pigments in the chloroplasts of algae

Types of reefs

Incipient Fringing Reefs

Fringing reefs

Submerged Reefs

Patch Reefs

Platform lagoonal Reefs

Crecentric Reefs

Ribbon Reefs

ATOLLS

Author: Paul Byrne

Email: n.b.goodwin@edfac.usyd.edu.au