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