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CORAL REEFS; THE JEWELS IN THE SEA
Sangeeta Roy and Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751004
INTRODUCTION
Corals areCalcareous skeleton or fused skeletons of colonial coelenterates or the skeleton together with the animals (Polyps) which secrete it. Coral colonies grow continuously in size by budding of polyps and form extensive masses known as coral reef. A coral reef is a mound of lime stone, which is formed chiefly of CaCO3 secreted by Coral polyps, that serves as a home to animals and plants.
CLASSIFICATION
Coral forming polyps belong to the phylum Coelenterate and class Anthozoa. Class Anthozoa includes three sub-classes that are Octocorallia, Hexacorallia and Tabulata.
Subclass I – Octocorallia (Order: Stolonifera,Telestacea,Alcyonacea,Coenothecalia, Gorgonacea, Pennatulacea)
Subclass II – Hexacorallia (Zoanthidea, Actiniaria, Ceriantharia, Antipatharia, Madreporaria)
Subclass III – Tabulata (Extinct colonial anthozoans)
TYPES OF REEFS
Naturalist Charles Darwin’s theory of Coral formation is widely accepted. This theory recognizes three types of reefs.
Fringing reef: Fringing reefs border shore lines of continents and islands in tropical seas. Fringing reefs are commonly found in the south pacific Hawaiian Islands and parts of the Caribbean.
Barrier reef: Barrier reef occurs farther offshore. Barrier reefs form when land masses sink and fringing reefs become separated from shorelines by wide channels. The Great Barrier Reef off northern Australia in the Indo-pacific is the largest barrier reef in the world. Atoll: If the land mass is a small island, it may essentially disappear below the ocean surface and the reef becomes an atoll. Atolls are reefs that surround a central lagoon. Atolls commonly occur in the Indo-pacific.
DISTRIBUTION
Reef building corals are scattered throughout the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic and Indo-pacific oceans, generally within 30 degrees N and 30 degrees S latitudes. Western Atlantic reefs include these areas – Bermuda, Bahamas, Caribbean islands, Belize, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The Indo-pacific ocean region extends from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf through the India and Pacific oceans to the Western Coast of Panama.
CONDITION FOR THE FORMATION OF CORAL REEF
Reef building corals are generally found at depths of less than 150ft. (46m) where sun-light penetrates. Because reef Building Corals have a symbiotic relationship with a type of microscopic algae, sunlight is necessary for these corals to thrive and grow. Reef tends to grow faster in clean water. Clean water allows light to reach the symbiotic algae living with in the coral polyp’s tissue. Reef building corals required warm ocean temperatures (68 to 82OF or 20 to 28OC). Reef development is more abundant in area that is subject to strong wave action. Waves carry food, nutrients and oxygen to the reef, distribute coral larvae and prevent sediment from settling on the coral reef. Precipitation of calcium from the water is necessary to form a coral polyp’s skeleton, this precipitation occurs when water temperature and salinity are high and carbon dioxide concentrations are low.
THE CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM
The coral reef ecosystem is a diverse collection of species that interact with each other and the physical environment. The sun is the initial source of energy for this ecosystem. Reef building corals have a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, microscopic algae that live with coral polyps tissues. Through photosynthesis zooxanthellae convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and carbohydrates. The coral polyps use carbohydrates as a nutrient and oxygen for respiration and in turn return carbon dioxide to the zooxanthellae. The reef provides shelter for many animals, including sponges, sea anemones, Bryozoans worms, sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, crustaceans, molluscs, variety of fishes, sea turtles, sea snakes. Reefs are also formed in deep water. The deep water reefs are formed by deep water corals.
DEEP WATER CORALS
Deep water corals are found beyond the reach of sunlight and are adapted to the dark environment. Deep water coral polyps do not contain the symbiotic algae. Deep water coral rely on catching passing food in the water column. As a result corals grow very slowly. Deep water coral colonies tend to be found in areas where there are strong water currents, which supply food and remove sediments. Three main groups of corals make up deep watercoral communities: 1.Hard (Stony) corals of the order scleractinia, 2.Black and horny corals of the order Antipatharia, 3.And soft corals of the order Alcyonacea, which includes the gorgonians
IMPORTANCE OF CORALS
Corals remove and recycle carbon dioxide. Excessive amounts of Co2 gas contribute to global warming and reef help to reduce it. Reefs protect coast from strong currents and waves. Reefs provide resources for fisheries. Coral reef provides important medicines including anti-cancer drugs. Reefs provide protection and shelter to many marine animals.
THREAT TO CORAL REEFS
Water Pollution: Reefs are harmed when animal wastes, industrial wastes or fertilizers are dumped into the ocean; these pollutants increase the level of nitrogen, causing an overgrowth of algae, which harm the reefs by blocking off sunlight that polyps need to survive. Sedimentation: Construction along coasts, mining and farming along coastal rivers can lead to soil erosion. Silt from eroded soil end up in the ocean and cover coral reefs. This deprives corals from the light which they need to survive.
Destructive Fishing Practices: Destructive fishing practices are applied for catching fishes like cyanide fishing and blast fishing, which kill coral polyps, the symbiotic algae and other small organisms.
Coral Mining: Mining also destroys coral, coral pieces are removed for use as bricks or road fill or sand and limestone from coral reefs are made into cement for new buildings. Corals are also sold as coral jewellery.
Careless Tourism: Careless boating, driving snorkeling and fishing can also damage coral reefs. Corals are also harmed when people drop anchors on them. Also, the disposal of sewage from tourist resorts contributes to coral reef degradation.
Ocean Warming and Coral bleaching: Global warming is caused by the accumulation of CO2 and other heat trapping gasses in the atmosphere. These gases act as a blanket, preventing the neat of the sun to escape through our atmosphere, this is causing sea surface temperature to rise, increased water temperatures, can cause mass coral bleaching. This occurs when coral polyps stressed by heat expel the algae that live within them, algae are normally responsible for the colour of coral, so when they are expelled, the coral appears bleached or white. The symbiotic algae zooxanthellae are responsible for the colour of the coral belongs to the phylum Dinoflagellata. Also natural pigments in the coral tissue produce a range of colours including white, red, orange, green, blue and purple.
Carbon Dioxide: Increased amounts of carbon dioxide are dissolving into the water because in the past few decades, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air has increased as a result coral in waters with large amounts of carbon dioxide form weaker skeletons, making them more vulnerable to damage from waves.
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Corals per se consist of several species in the spineless phylum Coelenterata. They are radially even and sustain internal space for digestion, named gastrovascular cavity, whose solitary opening is surrounded by tentacles to help in food capture. They are generally recognized by their solid skeletons, a calcium carbonate crystallized framework released by the epidermis of coral organisms addressed anthozoans. Coral colonies or sediments grow to become reefs. They flourish in warming seas. The genus Corallium presents off a red-orange, sometimes pinkish or white secretion that could be used in establishing ornamentations and jewelry. Since the 1700s, sponge coral was in the first place harvested from the coral reefs of Italy. It is precisely lately that most of the provision fares from the Japan and the islands in the South Pacific.
The origins of sponge coral jewelry can be retraced to the civilizations of the Zunis, Navajos, and Hopis, and up to straight off are yet prevailing in the snappy Native American lifestyle. Sponge corals add up in multiple colors, thus pieces of jewelry created from them could be in pale rose, orange red, black, white, and even blue. They could be fashioned to variant processes and influences of ornaments: earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and likewise belt buckles. They could besides serve up as the central details of silver jewelry. They could even be applied as beads to shape bracelets.
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A lot of individuals enunciate beauty is Chasteness and a plenty as well would articulate that Simple Mindedness is beauty. Beauty and Simmpleness are the greatest ascribes of sponge coral jewelry. They are clear of pretending and flooded of lordliness. Whatsoever man or woman who wears them seems alike a homely Breeze from bubbling seas. people who are into philosophy, art and literature prefer them because they are not flashy and whipping. Environmentalists assume them to symbolize their empathy with nature or earth. Students like them because not much endeavor and expense are needed to maintain them. Other thoughtfulnesses in acquiring them include very low-budget damages and very secure functionality.
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Exceptional compositions of sponge coral jewelry are ample in the market. Some of them are:
? Necklaces. These sustain red sponge corals united in concert utilizing silk thread, red sponge coral beads and aluminum mildly enclosed in a spiral fashion, or combinations of pearls and sponge coral.
? Bracelets. These have black sponge coral stones set in stainless steel or stone bangle bracelet realized of orange sponge coral.
? Earrings. Dangling earrings are sometimes built of pear-shaped sponge corals. There are as well black coral student earrings.
? Pendants. Pendants can be heart-shaped blue sponge coral and pale pink sponge coral animal patterns for children.
? Rings. Extensive sponge coral ring have orange sapphire. There are likewise sterling silver rings with black coral stones.
Walk on the beaches of the South Pacific, Japan, and Italy. Subsist one with Mother Earth and tone the spirited Gentle Wind as you walk by a mirror. Be the pure zypher among supporters. Extend online and pamper yourself, purchase yourself a sponge coral jewelry! Amended still, visit Queen Bee Jewelry.
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Corals per se comprise of diverse species in the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata. They are radially symmetrical and sustain inner space for digestion, addressed gastrovascular cavity, whose lone opening is encircled by tentacles to assist in food capture. They are for the most part known by their stony skeletons, a calcium carbonate crystalline framework secreted by the epidermis of coral organisms named anthozoans. Coral colonies or deposits grow to become reefs. They boom in fresh seas. The genus Corallium renders off a red-orange, sometimes pinkish or white secretion that could be employed in stimulating ornaments and jewelry. Since the 1700s, sponge coral was chiefly reaped from the coral reefs of Italy. It is just latterly that most of the supplying occurs from the Japan and the islands in the South Pacific.
The roots of sponge coral jewelry can be hunted to the cultures of the Zunis, Navajos, and Hopis, and up to today are even so dominant in the snappy Native American modus vivendi. Sponge corals come in multiple colors, therefore pieces of jewelry realized from them could be in pale rose, orange red, black, white, and even blue. They could be forged to various shapes and influences of ornaments: earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and likewise belt buckles. They could as well attend as the focal tips of silver jewelry. They could even be used as beads to forge bracelets.
Beauty and Simpleness
A plenty of masses enunciate beauty is Chasteness and a plenty too would pronounce that Chasteness is beauty. Beauty and Simpleness are the hottest dimensions of sponge coral jewelry. They are clear of pretension and pregnant of dignity. Whatsoever man or woman who dons them looks identical a cozy Breeze from warm seas. individuals who are into philosophy, art and literature prefer them because they are not flashy and lively. Environmentalists don them to represent their empathy with nature or earth. Students like them because not much attempt and disbursement are essential to uphold them. Other considerateness in acquiring them take on very low-cost monetary values and very stable functionality.
Cool Pieces
Marvelous picks of sponge coral jewelry are plentiful in the market. Some of them are:
? Necklaces. These earn red sponge corals attached unitedly utilizing silk thread, red sponge coral beads and aluminum lightly rolled in a coiled manner, or combinations of pearls and sponge coral.
? Bracelets. These hold black sponge coral stones set in stainless steel or stone bangle bracelet formed of orange sponge coral.
? Earrings. Hanging earrings are sometimes produced of spherical sponge corals. There are also black coral student earrings.
? Pendants. Pendants can be heart-shaped blue sponge coral and pale pink sponge coral animal patterns for children.
? Rings. Extensive sponge coral ring have orange sapphire. There are too sterling silver rings with black coral stones.
Walk on the beaches of the South Pacific, Japan, and Italy. Exist one with Mother Earth and experience the spirited Breeze as you walk by a mirror. Be the uncontaminated zypher among acquaintances. Proceed online and pamper yourself, buy yourself a sponge coral jewelry! Stronger yet, visit Queen Bee Jewelry.
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Corals per se constitute of diverse species in the spineless phylum Coelenterata. They are radially symmetrical and realize inner space for digestion, called gastrovascular cavity, whose sole opening is enclosed by tentacles to assist in food catch. They are for the most part known by their solid skeletons, a calcium carbonate crystallized framework released by the epidermis of coral organisms called anthozoans. Coral colonies or deposits mature to become reefs. They flourish in hot seas. The genus Corallium establishes off a red-orange, sometimes pinkish or white secretion that could be employed in making ornamentations and jewelry. Since the 1700s, sponge coral was mainly harvested from the coral reefs of Italy. It is merely latterly that most of the supplying hails from the Japan and the islands in the South Pacific.
The roots of sponge coral earrings can be hunted to the cultures of the Zunis, Navajos, and Hopis, and up to instantly are still prevailing in the voguish Native American lifestyle. Sponge corals occur in multiple colors, therefore pieces of jewelry made from them could be in pale rose, orange red, black, white, and even blue. They could be fashioned to divergent builds and forms of ornaments: earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and also belt buckles. They could also function as the focal targets of silver jewelry. They could even be applied as beads to forge bracelets.
Beauty and Simple Mindedness
A plenty of individuals state beauty is Simpleness and a plenty as well would pronounce that Chasteness is beauty. Beauty and Simple Mindedness are the greatest dimensions of sponge coral earrings. They are rid of pretension and flooded of self-regard. Any man or woman who assumes them looks similar a cozy Breeze from fresh seas. people who are into philosophy, art and literature prefer them because they are not pretentious and vibrant. Environmentalists assume them to symbolize their empathy with nature or earth. Students like them because not much exploit and expense are requisite to uphold them. Other consideratenesses in incurring them include very low-cost prices and very stable functionality.
Cool Pieces
Marvellous pieces of sponge coral earrings are ample in the market. Some of them are:
? Necklaces. These induce red sponge corals coupled together applying silk thread, red sponge coral beads and aluminum mildly rolled in a spiral fashion, or combining of pearls and sponge coral.
? Bracelets. These sustain black sponge coral stones planted in stainless steel or stone bangle bracelet created of orange sponge coral.
? Earrings. Hangings earrings are sometimes realized of roundish sponge corals. There are besides black coral student earrings.
? Pendants. Pendants can be heart-shaped blue sponge coral and pale pink sponge coral animal shapes for children.
? Rings. Big sponge coral ring have orange sapphire. There are besides sterling silver rings with black coral stones.
Walk on the beaches of the South Pacific, Japan, and Italy. Subsist one with Mother Earth and find the spirited Breeze as you walk by a mirror. Be the unpolluted zypher among admirers. Extend online and pamper yourself, purchase yourself a sponge coral earrings! Stronger still, visit Queen Bee Jewelry.
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Sponge Coral Jewelry: A Gentle Wind from the warming Seas
Corals per se constitute of contrasting species in the spineless phylum Coelenterata. They are radially even and possess inner space for digestion, called gastrovascular cavity, whose alone opening is surrounded by tentacles to assist in food seizure. They are mostly known by their hard skeletons, a calcium carbonate crystallized framework released by the epidermis of coral organisms named anthozoans. Coral colonies or sedimentations mature to become reefs. They flourish in loving seas. The genus Corallium presents off a red-orange, sometimes pinkish or white secretion that could be employed in creating ornaments and jewelry. Since the 1700s, sponge coral was principally harvested from the coral reefs of Italy. It is precisely of late that most of the provision derives from the Japan and the islands in the South Pacific.
The antecedents of sponge coral jewelry can be observed to the cultures of the Zunis, Navajos, and Hopis, and up to now are even so sovereign in the quaint Indigenous American modus vivendi. Sponge corals follow in multiple colors, so bits of jewelry formed from them could be in pale rose, orange red, black, white, and even blue. They could be forged to diverse configurations and forms of ornaments: earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and also belt buckles. They could likewise serve up as the focal details of silver jewelry. They could even be used as beads to build bracelets.
Beauty and Easiness
A mass of people pronounce beauty is Chasteness and a lot too would pronounce that Easiness is beauty. Beauty and Simpleness are the strongest properties of sponge coral jewelry. They are exempt of pretense and intact of self-respect. Any man or woman who wears them looks alike a reassuring Breeze from spirited seas. people who are into philosophy, art and literature opt them because they are not flashy and dashing. Conservationists assume them to stand for their empathy with nature or earth. Students like them because not much exploit and expense are exacted to maintain them. Other consideratenesses in incurring them include very low-priced costs and very tried functionality.
Cool Pieces
Special compositions of sponge coral jewelry are ample in the market. Some of them are:
? Necklaces. These sustain red sponge corals coupled in concert using silk thread, red sponge coral beads and aluminum lightly rolled in a spiral fashion, or combining of pearls and sponge coral.
? Bracelets. These induce black sponge coral stones established in stainless steel or stone bangle bracelet realized of orange sponge coral.
? Earrings. Swinging earrings are sometimes realized of pear-shaped sponge corals. There are besides black coral student earrings.
? Pendants. Pendants can be heart-shaped blue sponge coral and pale pink sponge coral animal works for children.
? Rings. Big sponge coral ring have orange sapphire. There are as well sterling silver rings with black coral stones.
Walk on the beaches of the South Pacific, Japan, and Italy. Exist one with Mother Earth and sense the warm Breeze as you walk by a mirror. Be the fine zypher among friends. Proceed online and pamper yourself, buy yourself a sponge coral jewelry! Greater even so, visit Queen Bee Jewelry.
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See also: Fringing reef, Atoll reef, and The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
Most coral reefs were formed after the last glacial period when melting ice caused the sea level to rise and flood the continental shelves. This means that most coral reefs are less than 10,000 years old. As coral reef communities were established on the shelves, they built reefs that grew upwards, keeping pace with the rise in sea level. Reefs that didn’t keep pace could become drowned reefs, covered by so much water that there was insufficient light for further survival.
Coral reefs are also found in the deep sea away from the continental shelves, around oceanic islands and as atolls. The vast majority of these ocean coral islands are volcanic in origin. The few exceptions have tectonic origins where plate movements have lifted the deep ocean floor on the surface.
In 1842 Charles Darwin published his first monograph, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. There he set out his theory of the formation of atoll reefs, an idea he conceived during the voyage of the Beagle. His theory was that atolls were formed by the uplift and subsidence of the Earth’s crust under the oceans. Darwin theory sets out a sequence of three stages in atoll formation. It starts with a fringing reef forming around an extinct volcanic island as the island and ocean floor subsides. As the subsidence continues, the fringing reef becomes a barrier reef, and ultimately an atoll reef.
Darwin theory starts with a volcanic island which becomes extinct
As the island and ocean floor subside, coral growth builds a fringing reef, often including a shallow lagoon between the land and the main reef
As the subsidence continues the fringing reef becomes a larger barrier reef further from the shore with a bigger and deeper lagoon inside
Ultimately the island sinks below the sea, and the barrier reef becomes an atoll enclosing an open lagoon
A fringing reef can take ten thousand years to form, and an atoll can take up to 30 million years
A small atoll in Maldives.
Darwin predicted that underneath each lagoon would be a bed rock base, the remains of the original volcano. Subsequent drilling has proved this correct. Darwin’s theory followed from his understanding that coral polyps thrive in the clean seas of the tropics where the water is agitated, but can only live within a limited depth of water, starting just below low tide. Where the level of the underlying land stays the same, the corals grow around the coast to form what he called fringing reefs, and can eventually grow out from the shore to become a barrier reef. Where the land is rising, fringing reefs can grow around the coast, but coral raised above sea level dies and becomes white limestone. If the land subsides slowly, the fringing reefs keep pace by growing upwards on a base of dead coral, forming a barrier reef enclosing a lagoon between the reef and the land. A barrier reef can encircle an island, and once the island sinks below sea level a roughly circular atoll of growing coral continues to keep up with the sea level, forming a central lagoon. Barrier reefs and atolls don’t usually form complete circles, but are broken in places by storms. Should the land subside too quickly or sea level rise too fast, the coral dies as it is below its habitable depth.
In general, the two main variables determining the geomorphology, or shape, of coral reefs are the nature of the underlying substrate on which they rest, and the history of the change in sea level relative to that substrate.
As an example of how coral reefs have formed on continental shelves, the current living reef structure of the Great Barrier Reef began growing about 20,000 years ago. The sea level was then 120 metres (390 ft) lower than it is today. As the sea level rose, the water and the corals encroached on what had been the hills of the coastal plain. By 13,000 years ago the sea level was 60 metres (200 ft) lower than at present, and the hills of the coastal plains were, by then, continental islands. As the sea level rise continued most of the continental islands were submerged. The corals could then overgrow the hills, forming the present cays and reefs. The sea level on the Great Barrier Reef has not changed significantly in the last 6,000 years, and the age of the present living reef structure is estimated to be between 6,000 and 8,000 years. Although the Great Barrier Reef formed along a continental shelf, and not around a volcanic island, the same principles apply as outlined by Darwin’s theory above. The Great Barrier Reef development has stopped at the barrier reef stage, since Australia is not about to submerge. It has formed the world’s largest barrier reef, 3001000 metres (330-1100 yards) from shore, and 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) long.
Healthy coral reefs grow horizontally from 1 to 3 centimetres (0.39 to 1.2 in) per year, and grow vertically anywhere from 1 to 25 centimetres (0.412 in) per year; however, they are limited to growing above a depth of 150 metres (490 ft) due to their need for sunlight, and cannot grow above sea level.
Types
The three principal reef types are:
Fringing reef a reef that is directly attached to a shore or borders it with an intervening shallow channel or lagoon.
Barrier reef a reef separated from a mainland or island shore by a deep lagoon.
Atoll reef a more or less circular or continuous barrier reef extending all the way around a lagoon without a central island.
Other reef types or variants are:
Patch reef an isolated, comparatively small reef outcrop, usually within a lagoon or embayment, often circular and surrounded by sand or seagrass. Patch reefs are common.
Apron reef a short reef resembling a fringing reef, but more sloped; extending out and downward from a point or peninsular shore.
Bank reef a linear or semi-circular shaped-outline, larger than a patch reef.
Ribbon reef a long, narrow, somewhat winding reef, usually associated with an atoll lagoon.
Table reef an isolated reef, approaching an atoll type, but without a lagoon.
Inhabited cay in the Maldives
Microatolls certain species of corals form communities called microatolls. The vertical growth of microatolls is limited by average tidal height. By analysing the various growth morphologies, microatolls can be used as a low resolution record of patterns of sea level change. Fossilized microatolls can also be dated using radioactive carbon dating. Such methods have been used to reconstruct Holocene sea levels.
Cays small, low-elevation, sandy islands formed on the surface of a coral reef. Material eroded from the reef piles up on parts of the reef or lagoon, forming an area above sea level. Plants can stabilize cays enough for them to be habitable by humans. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef), where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people. Their surrounding reef ecosystems also provide food and building materials for island inhabitants.
When a coral reef cannot keep up with the sinking of a volcanic island, a seamount or guyot is formed. Seamounts and guyots are below the surface of the ocean and may host many species, depending on their location and depth. Seamounts are rounded at the top and guyots are flat. The flat top of the guyot, also called a tablemount, is due to erosion by waves, winds, and atmospheric processes.
Distribution
Locations of coral reefs.
Boundary for 20 C isotherms. Most corals live within this boundary. Note the cooler waters caused by upwelling on the south west coast of Africa and off the coast of Peru.
This map shows areas of upwelling in red. Coral reefs are not found in coastal areas where colder and nutrient rich upwellings occur
Coral reefs are estimated to cover 284,300 square kilometers (109,800 sq mi), which is just under one percent of the surface area occupied by the world oceans. The Indo-Pacific region (including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific) account for 91.9% of this total. Southeast Asia accounts for 32.3% of that figure, while the Pacific including Australia accounts for 40.8%. Atlantic and Caribbean coral reefs only account for 7.6%.
Although corals exist both in temperate and tropical waters, shallow-water reefs form only in a zone extending from 30 N to 30 S of the equator. Tropical corals do not grow at depths of over 50 meters (160 ft). The optimum temperature for most coral reefs is 2627 C, and few reefs exist in waters below 18 C. However reefs in the Persian Gulf have adapted to temperatures of 13 C in winter and 38 C in summer.
Deep water coral is more still exceptional since it can exist at greater depths and colder temperatures. Although deep water corals can form reefs, very little is known about them.
Coral reefs are rare along the American west coast, as well as along the African west coast. This is due primarily to upwelling and strong cold coastal currents that reduce water temperatures in these areas (respectively the Peru, Benguela and Canary streams). Corals are seldom found along the coastline of South Asia from the eastern tip of India (Madras) to the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar. They are also rare along the coast around north-eastern South America and Bangladesh due to the freshwater release from the Amazon and Ganges Rivers respectively.
Principal coral reefs and reef areas of the world
The Great Barrier Reef – largest coral reef system in the world, Queensland, Australia.
The Belize Barrier Reef – second largest in the world, stretching from southern Quintana Roo, Mexico along the coast of Belize to the Bay Islands of Honduras.
The New Caledonia Barrier Reef – second longest double barrier reef in the world, with a length of about 1,500 kilometers (930 mi).
The Andros, Bahamas Barrier Reef – third largest in the world, following the east coast of Andros Island, Bahamas, between Andros and Nassau.
The Red Sea Coral Reef – located off the coast of Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
Pulley Ridge – deepest photosynthetic coral reef, Florida.
Numerous reefs scattered over the Maldives.
Ghe Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia’s West Papua province offer the highest known marine diversity.
Biology
Anatomy of a coral polyp.
See also: Coral
Live coral should be thought of as small live animals embedded in calcium carbonate. It is a mistake to think of coral as plants or rocks. Coral consists of accumulations of individual animals called polyps, arranged in diverse shapes. Polyps are usually tiny, but they can range in size from a pinhead to a foot across. Reefs grow as polyps along with other organisms deposit calcium carbonate, the basis of coral, as a skeletal structure beneath and around themselves, pushing the coral’s “head” or polyps upwards and outwards. Waves, grazing fish (such as parrotfish), sea urchins, sponges, and other forces and organisms break down coral skeletons into fragments that settle into spaces in the reef structure. Many other organisms living in the reef community contribute skeletal calcium carbonate in the same manner. Coralline algae are important contributors to reef structure in those parts of the reef subjected to the greatest forces by waves (such as the reef front facing the open ocean). These algae deposit limestone in sheets over the reef surface, thereby strengthening it.
Reef-building or hermatypic corals are only found in the photic zone (above 50 m depth), the depth to which sufficient sunlight penetrates the water for photosynthesis to occur. Coral polyps do not photosynthesize, but have a symbiotic relationship with single-celled organisms called zooxanthellae; these cells within the tissues of the coral polyps carry out photosynthesis and produce excess organic nutrients that are then used by the coral polyps. Because of this relationship, coral reefs grow much faster in clear water, which admits more sunlight. Indeed, the relationship is responsible for coral reefs in the sense that without their symbionts, coral growth would be too slow for the corals to form impressive reef structures. Corals get up to 90% of their nutrients from their zooxanthellae symbionts.
Table coral
Close up of polyps arrayed on a coral, waving their tentacles. There can be thousands of polyps on a single coral branch.
Corals can reproduce both sexually and asexually. An individual polyp may use both reproductive modes within its lifetime. Corals reproduce sexually by either internal or external fertilization. The reproductive cells are found on the mesentery membranes that radiate inward from the layer of tissue that lines the stomach cavity. Some mature adult corals are hermaphroditic; others are exclusively male or female. A few even change sex as they grow.
Internally fertilized eggs develop in the polyp for a period ranging from days to weeks. Subsequent development produces a tiny larva, known as a planula. Externally fertilized eggs develop during synchronized spawning. Polyps release eggs and sperm into the water simultaneously. Eggs disperse over a large area. Spawning depends on four factors: time of year, water temperature, and tidal and lunar cycles. Spawning is most successful when there is little variation between high and low tides. The less water movement, the better the chance for fertilization. Ideal timing occurs in the spring. Release of eggs or planula larvae usually occurs at night and is sometimes in phase with the lunar cycle (36 days after a full moon). The period from release to settlement lasts only a few days, but some planulae can survive afloat for several weeks (7, 14). They are vulnerable to heavy predation and adverse environmental conditions. For the lucky few who survive to attach to substrate, the challenge comes from competition for food and space.
There are about one thousand species of coral, which build different shapes such as wrinkled brains, cabbages, table tops, stag antlers, wire strands and pillars.
Brain coral
Staghorn coral
Spiral wire coral
Pillar coral
Darwin’s paradox
Darwin’s paradox
Coral… seems to proliferate when ocean waters are warm, poor, clear and agitated, a fact which Darwin had already noted when he passed through Tahiti in 1842.
This constitutes a fundamental paradox, shown quantitatively by the apparent impossibility of balancing input and output of the nutritive elements which control the coral polyp metabolism.
Recent oceanographic research has brought to light the reality of this paradox by confirming that the oligotrophy of the ocean euphotic zone persists right up to the swell-battered reef crest. When you approach the reef edges and atolls from the quasi-desert of the open sea, the near absence of living matter suddenly becomes a plethora of life, without transition. So why is there something rather than nothing, and more precisely, where do the necessary nutrients for the functioning of this extraordinary coral reef machine come from ? Francis Rougerie
During his voyage on the Beagle, Darwin described tropical coral reefs as oases in the desert of the ocean. He reflected on the paradox that tropical coral reefs, which are among the richest and most diverse ecosystems on earth, flourish when they are surrounded and supported by tropical ocean waters that provide hardly any nutrients. It has been a challenge for scientists to explain this paradox.
Coral reefs cover just under one percent of the surface of the world ocean, yet they support over one-quarter of all marine species. This huge number of species results in complex food webs, with large predator fish eating smaller forage fish that eat yet smaller zooplankton and so on. However, all food webs eventually depend on plants, which are the primary producers. And the primary productivity on a coral reef is very high, resulting in a typical biomass production of 5-10g C m2 day1.
Tropical waters are often described as crystal clear. This is because they are deficient in nutrients and drifting plankton. The sun shines year round in the tropics, warming the surface ocean layer so it is less dense than subsurface layers. The warmer water is separated from the cooler water by a stable thermocline, where the temperature makes a rapid change. This keeps the warm surface waters floating above the cooler deeper waters. There is little exchange between these layers. Organisms that die in aquatic environments generally sink to the bottom where they decompose. This decomposition releases nutrients in the form of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These nutrients, N, P and K, are necessary for plant growth, but in the tropics they are not directly recycled back to the surface.
Plants are the base of the food chain, and need sunlight and nutrients if they are to grow. In the ocean these plants are mainly a type of plankton, microscopic phytoplankton which drift in the water column. They need sunlight for photosynthesis, which powers carbon fixation, so they are found only in the surface waters. But they also need nutrients. Phytoplankton rapidly use any nutrients in the surface waters, and in the tropics these nutrients are not usually replaced because of the thermocline.
Coral polyps
The situation with coral reefs is different. The lagoons that are formed by the upward growth of coral reefs fill in with material eroded from the reef and the island. They become havens for marine life, providing protection from waves and storms.
Most importantly, nutrients are recycled, and not lost like they are in the open ocean. In coral reefs and lagoons, the producers include phytoplankton as well as marine worms, seaweed, and coralline algae, especially small types called turf algae, which pass their nutrients to the corals. The phytoplankton are eaten by fish and crustaceans, who also pass nutrients along the food web. Recycling ensures that fewer nutrients are needed overall to support the community.
Corals harbour numerous symbiotic organisms. In particular, there is a remarkable symbiosis between coral and a microscopic algae, the single cell dinoflagellate known as a zooxanthella. The zooxanthella forms an endosymbiosis with a coral polyp, that is, it lives within the tissues of the polyp. There it absorbs solar energy with special pigments, using photosynthesis to supply the polyp with organic nutrients in the form of glucose, glycerol, and amino acids. Zooxanthellae can provide up to 90% of a coral energy requirements. In return, as an example of mutualism, the coral provides the zooxanthellae, averaging one million for every cubic centimetre of coral, with a relatively safe place to live and a constant supply of the carbon dioxide it needs for photosynthesis.
Corals are nocturnal feeders. Here, in the dark, coral polyps have extended their tentacles to feed on zooplankton
The colour of corals depends on the type zooxanthella they host
Corals also absorb nutrients, including inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus, directly from the water. Many corals extend their tentacles at night to catch zooplankton that brush them when the water is agitated. Zooplankton provides the polyp with nitrogen, and the polyp shares some of the nitrogen with the zooxanthellae, which also require this element. The pigments in different species of zooxanthellae give corals their different colours. Coral which loses its zooxanthellae becomes white and is said to be bleached, a condition which unless corrected can lead to the death of the coral.
A 2001 paper reported that sponges are another key to explaining Darwin paradox. These sponges live in crevices in the coral reefs. They are efficient filter feeders, and in the Red Sea they consume about sixty percent of the phytoplankton that drifts by. The nutrients the sponges absorb from the phytoplankton are then excreted in a form the corals can use.
Researchers in 2002 explained why coral thrives better in agitated waters. They found the roughness of coral surfaces is the key. Normally there is a boundary layer of still water around a submerged object which acts as a barrier. But when waves break on the extremely rough edges of corals the boundary layer is disrupted, allowing the corals access to the few nutrients that are there. The researchers claim that turbulent water promotes rapid reef growth and lots of branching. Although coral ecosysemss are great at recycling, with the wastes of one species becoming the food of another, the researchers also claim that, without the nutritional gains achieved by rough coral surfaces, even the most effective recycling would leave corals wanting in nutrients.
In 2004, another symbiotic organism, a bacteria called Cyanobacteria, was discovered to provide soluble nitrates for the reef via nitrogen fixation.
Coral reefs also often depend on other habitats, such as seagrass meadows and mangrove forests in the surrounding area for the supply of nutrients. Seagrass and mangroves supply dead plants and animals which are rich in nitrogen and also serve to feed fish and animals from the reef by supplying wood and vegetation. Reefs in turn protect mangroves and seagrass from waves and produce sediment for the mangroves and seagrass to root in.
Zones
Coral reef ecosystems contain a number of distinctive zones that represent different kinds of habitats for fishes and invertebrate animals. Usually, three major zones are recognized: the fore reef (outermost and deepest part of the reef), reef crest (shallowest and narrowest zone over which ocean waves break), and the back reef (behind the reef crest and closest to shore, with calm protected waters) which is also frequently referred to as the reef lagoon.
All three zones are physically and ecologically interconnected to some extent, with reef life and oceanic processes creating ample opportunities for exchange of ocean water, sediments, nutrients, and marine life between one another.
Thus, they should properly be viewed as integrated components of the coral reef ecosystem, each playing a role in the support of the abundant and diverse fish assemblages that characterize coral reefs.
Most coral reefs exist in shallow waters less than fifty metres deep. Some are found on tropical continental shelves where cool, nutrient rich upwelling does not occur, such as Great Barrier Reef. Others are found in the deep ocean surrounding islands or as atolls, such as in the Maldives. The reefs surrounding islands form when islands subside into the ocean, and atolls form when an island subsides below the surface of the sea.
Moyle and Cech distinguish six major zones, though most reefs posses only some of the zones.
Water in the reef surface zone is often agitated. This diagram represents a reef on a continental shelf. The water waves at the left travel over the off-reef floor until they encounter the reef slope or fore reef. Then the waves pass over the shallow reef crest. When a wave enters shallow water it shoals, that is, it slows down and the wave height increases.
The reef surface is the shallowest part of the reef. It is subject to the constant surge of waves and the rise and fall of tides. When water waves pass over shallow areas, they shoal, as shown in the diagram at the right. This means that the water in the reef surface zone is often agitated. These are the precise condition under which coral flourish. Shallowness means there is plenty of light for photosynthesis, and agitated water promotes the ability of coral to feed on plankton. However other organisms, such as fish and invertebrates, must be able to withstand the robust conditions to flourish in this zone.
The off-reef floor is the shallow sea floor surrounding a reef. This zone applies to reefs on continental shelves. Reefs around tropical islands and atolls drop abruptly to great depths, and don’t have an off-reef floor. Usually sandy, the off-reef floor often supports seagrass meadows which are important foraging areas for reef fish.
The reef drop-off is, for its first 50 metres, habitat for many reef fish who find shelter on the cliff face and plankton in the water nearby. The drop-off zone applies mainly to the reefs surrounding oceanic islands and atolls.
The reef face is the zone above the reef floor or the reef drop-off. “It is usually the richest habitat for fish and invertebrates. Its complex growths of coral and calcareous algae provide innumerable cracks and crevices for protection, and the abundant invertebrates and epiphytic algae provide an ample source of food.”
The reef flat sandy bottomed flat can be behind the main reef, containing chunks of coral. “The reef flat may be a protective area bordering a lagoon, or it may be a flat, rocky area between the reef and the shore. In the former case, the number of fish species living in the area often is the highest of any reef zone.”
The reef lagoon “many coral reefs completely enclose an area, thereby creating a quiet-water lagoon that usually contains small patched of reef.”
However, the “topography of coral reefs is constantly changing. Each reef is made up of irregular patches of algae, sessile invertebrates, and bare rock an sand. The size, shape and relative abundance of these patches changes from year to year in response to the various factors that favour one type of patch over another. Growing coral, for example, produces constant change in the fine structure of reefs. On a larger scale, tropical storms may knock out large sections of reef and cause boulders on sandy areas to move.” (Connell 1978)
Biodiversity
Tube sponges attracting cardinal fishes, glassfishes and wrasses
Reefs are also home to a large variety of other organisms, including fish, seabirds, sponges, Cnidarians (which includes some types of corals and jellyfish), worms, crustaceans (including shrimp, cleaner shrimp, spiny lobsters and crabs), molluscs (including cephalopods), echinoderms (including starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers), sea squirts, sea turtles and sea snakes. Aside from humans, mammals are rare on coral reefs, with visiting cetaceans such as dolphins being the main exception. A few of these varied species feed directly on corals, while others graze on algae on the reef and participate in complex food webs.
Researchers have found evidence of algae dominance in locations of healthy coral reefs. In surveys done around largely uninhabited US Pacific islands, algae inhabit a large percentage of surveyed coral locations. The algae population consists of turf algae, coralline algae, and macroalgae.
Fish
Main article: Coral reef fishes
Coral reefs are home to a variety of tropical or reef fish which can be distinguished. These include:
fish that adjust the coral (such as Labridae and parrotfish) These types of fish feed either on small animals living near the coral, seaweed, or on the coral itself. Fish that feed on small animals include cleaner fish (these fish feed between the jaws of larger predatory fish), bullet fish and Balistidae (these eat sea urchins) while seaweed eating fish include the Pomacentridae (damselfishes). Serranidae cultivate the seaweed by removing creatures feeding on it (as sea urchins), and they remove inedible seaweeds. Fish that eat coral include parrotfish and butterflyfish.
fish that swim nearby the reef. These include predatory fish such as pompanos, groupers, Horse mackerels, certain types of shark, Epinephelus marginatus, barracudas, snappers, …) They also include herbivorous and plankton-eating fish. Fish eating seagrass include Horse mackerel, snapper, Pagellus, Conodon, … Fish eating plankton include Caesio, manta ray, chromis, Holocentridae, pterapogon kauderni, …
Organisms can cover every square inch of a coral reef,
Generally, fish that swim in coral reefs are as colourful as the reef itself. Examples are the beautiful parrotfish, angelfish, damselfish, Pomacanthus paru, Clinidae and butterflyfish. At night, some change to a less vivid color. Besides colorful fish matching their environment, other fish (e.g., predatory and herbivorous fish such as Lampanyctodes hectoris, Holocentridae, Pterapogon kauderni, …) as well as aquatic animals (Comatulida, Crinoidea, Ophiuroidea, …) emerge and become active while others rest.
Other fish groups found on coral reefs include groupers, grunts and wrasses. Over 4,000 species of fish inhabit coral reefs. It has been suggested that the fish species that inhabit coral reefs are able to coexist in such high numbers because any free living space is inhabited by the first planktonic fish larvae that find it in what has been termed “a lottery for living space”.
Seabirds
Coral reef systems provide important habitats for seabird species, some endangered. For example, Midway Atoll supports nearly three million seabirds, including two-thirds (1.5 million) of the global population of Laysan Albatross, and one-third of the global population of black-footed albatross. Each seabird species have specific sites on the atoll where they nest. Altogether, 17 species of seabirds live on Midway. The short-tailed albatross is the rarest, with fewer than 2,200 surviving after excessive feather hunting in the late nineteenth century.
Invertebrates
Invertebrates have their part in the food-chain of the reef. For example, sea urchins, Dotidae and sea slugs eat seaweed. Some species of sea urchins, such as Diadema antillarum, can play a pivotal part in preventing algae overrunning reefs. Hawksbill turtles, Nudibranchia and sea anemones eat sponges.
A number of invertebrates, collectively called cryptofauna, inhabit the coral skeletal substrate itself, either boring into the skeletons (through the process of bioerosion) or living in pre-existing voids and crevices. Those animals boring into the rock include sponges, bivalve molluscs, and sipunculans. Those settling on the reef include many other species, particularly crustaceans and polychaete worms.
Other
Sea snakes feed exclusively on fish and their eggs. Many tropical birds forage on reef fish, such as herons, gannets, pelicans and boobies. Some land based reptiles can be intermittently associated with reefs, such as monitor lizards, the marine crocodile and semi-aquatic snakes like Laticauda colubrina.
Soft coral, cup coral, sponges and ascidians
Crown-tipped coral fungus
Eastern coral snake
Banded coral shrimp
Caribbean reef squid
Giant clam
Green turtle
Shoaling reef fish
Economic value
Coral reefs deliver ecosystem services to tourism, fisheries and coastline protection. The global economic value of coral reefs has been estimated at billion. Coral reefs protect shorelines by absorbing wave energy, and many small islands would not exist without their reef to protect them. According to the WWF, the economic cost over a 25 year period of destroying one kilometre of coral reef is somewhere between 7,000 and ,200,000. About 6 million tons of fish are taken each year from coral reefs. Well managed coral reefs have an annual yield of 15 tons seafood on average per square kilometre. Southeast Asia’s coral reef fisheries alone yield about $ 2.4 billion annually from seafood.
Issues
Island with fringing reef off Yap, Micronesia. Coral reefs are dying around the world.
Coral reefs are dying around the world. Human activity may represent the greatest threat to coral reefs. In particular, coral mining, pollution (organic and non-organic), overfishing, blast fishing and the digging of canals and access into islands and bays are serious threats to these ecosystems. Coral reefs also face high dangers from pollution, diseases, destructive fishing practices and warming oceans.” In order to find answers for these problems, researchers study the various factors that impact reefs. The list of factors is long, including the ocean’s role as a carbon dioxide sink, atmospheric changes, ultraviolet light, ocean acidification, biological virus, impacts of dust storms carrying agents to far flung reefs, pollutants, algal blooms and others. Reefs are threatened well beyond coastal areas.
Southeast Asian coral reefs are at risk from damaging fishing practices (such as cyanide and blast fishing), overfishing, sedimentation, pollution and bleaching. A variety of activities, including education, regulation, and the establishment of marine protected areas are under way to protect these reefs.
Indonesia, is home to a third of the world’s total corals and a quarter of its fish species, nearly 33,000 square miles (85,000 km2). Indonesia’s coral reefs are located in the heart of the Coral Triangle and have fallen victim to destructive fishing, unregulated tourism, and bleaching due to climatic changes. Data from 414 reef monitoring stations in 2000 found that only 6% are in excellent condition, while 24% are in good condition, and approximately 70% are in poor to fair condition (2003 The Johns Hopkins University).
In 2007, Reef Check, the world largest reef conservation organization, stated that only 5% of Philippines 27,000 square-kilometers of coral reef are in “excellent condition”: Tubbataha Reef, Marine Park in Palawan, Apo Island in Negros Oriental, Apo Reef in Puerto Galera, Mindoro, and Verde Island Passage off Batangas. Philippine coral reefs is second largest in Asia.
General estimates show approximately 10% world’s coral reefs are already dead. It is estimated that about 60% of the world’s reefs are at risk due to destructive, human-related activities. The threat to the health of reefs is particularly strong in Southeast Asia, where 80% of reefs are endangered.
Fishing practices
See also: Overfishing and Environmental effects of fishing
Many valuable fishery species live around coral reefs. Shark and reef fish are fished intensively for fish markets. Seahorses and sea cucumbers are harvested for Chinese pharmacopeia. Lobster are sought for the tourist industry, and shrimp for the export trade.
Overfishing, particularly selective overfishing, can unbalance coral ecosystems by encouraging the excessive growth of coral predators. Predators which eat living coral, such as the crown-of-thorns starfish, are called corallivores. Coral reefs are built from stony coral, which evolved with large amounts of the wax cetyl palmitate in their tissues. Most predators find this wax indigestible. The crown-of-thorns starfish is a large (up to one metre) starfish protected with long, venomous spikes. It has an enzyme system which dissolves the wax in stony corals, and allows the starfish to feed on the living coral. Normally the starfish are kept under control by the giant triton sea snail. However, the giant triton is valued for its shell, and has been severely overfished. As a result, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can periodically explode without check, devastating coral reefs.
The overfished giant triton eats the crown of thorns starfish
The crown of thorns starfish eats coral
Although some aquarium fish species can reproduce in aquaria (such as Pomacentridae), most (95%) are collected from coral reefs. Intense harvesting, especially in South-East Asia (including Indonesia and the Philippines), damages the reefs. This is aggravated by destructive fishing practices, such as cyanide and blast fishing. Most (8090%) aquarium fish from the Philippines are captured with sodium cyanide. This toxic chemical is dissolved in sea water and released into fish shelters. It narcotizes fish, which are then easily captured. However, most fish collected with cyanide die a few months later from liver damage. Moreover, non-marketable species die in the field. A major catalyst of cyanide fishing is poverty within fishing communities. In areas like the Philippines where the cyanide is regularly used, the percentage of the population below the poverty line is 40%. In such developing countries, a fisherman might resort to such practices in order to protect his family from starvation.
Dynamite fishing is another destructive method for gathering fish. Sticks of dynamite, grenades, or home-made explosives are simply thrown in the water. This method of fishing kills the fish within the main blast area, along with many inedible and/or unwanted reef animals. The blast also kills the corals in the area, eliminating the very structure of the reef, destroying the habitat for fish and other animals important for the maintenance of a healthy reef. Other destructive fishing methods, such as muroami and kayakas, kill all fish in certain areas, causing havoc on the ecosystem of the reef.
Hughes, et al., (2003), wrote that “with increased human population and improved storage and transport systems, the scale of human impacts on reefs has grown exponentially. For example, markets for fish and other natural resources have become global, supplying demand for reef resources.”
Pollution
Main article: Marine pollution
This image of an algae bloom off the southern coast of England, though not in a coral region, shows what a bloom can look like from a satellite remote sensing system
Runoff caused by farming and construction of roads, buildings, ports, channels, and harbours, can carry soil laden with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and minerals. This nutrient-rich water can cause fleshy algae and phytoplankton to thrive in coastal areas, known as algal blooms, which have the potential to create hypoxic conditions by using all available oxygen. Some algae are toxic, and both plants reduce the levels of sunlight and oxygen, killing marine organisms such as fish and coral. The addition of too many nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates, a process known as eutrophication, is very damaging to reefs. High nitrate levels are toxic to corals, while phosphates slow down the growth of coral skeleton.
Reefs in close proximity to human populations can be faced with local stresses, including poor water quality from land-based sources of pollution. Copper, a common industrial pollutant has been shown to interfere with the life history and development of coral polyps. Poor water quality has also been shown to encourage the spread of infectious diseases among corals.
Barbados dust graph
In addition to soil runoff, additional soil and sand is blown in from other regions. Dust from the Sahara moving around the southern periphery of the subtropical ridge moves into the Caribbean and Florida during the warm season as the ridge builds and moves northward through the subtropical Atlantic. Dust can also be attributed to a global transport from the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts across Korea, Japan, and the Northern Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands. Since 1970, dust outbreaks have worsened due to periods of drought in Africa. There is a large variability in dust transport to the Caribbean and Florida from year to year; however, the flux is greater during positive phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation. The USGS links dust events to a decline in the health of coral reefs across the Caribbean and Florida, primarily since the 1970s. Studies have shown that corals can incorporate dust into their skeletons as identified from dust from the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in the annular bands of the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis from the Florida reef tract.
Climate change
See also: Coral bleaching
Unbleached and bleached coral
Any rise in the sea level due to climate change would effectively ask coral to grow faster to keep up. Also, water temperature changes can be very disturbing to the coral. This was seen during the 1998 and 2004 El Nio weather phenomena, in which sea surface temperatures rose well above normal, bleaching or killing many coral reefs. High seas surface temperature (SSTs) coupled with high irradiance (light intensity), triggers the loss of zooxanthellae, a symbiotic algae, and its dinoflagellate pigmentation in corals causing coral bleaching. Zooxanthellae provides up to 90% of the energy to the coral host. Reefs can often recover from bleaching if they are healthy to begin with and water temperatures cool. However, recovery may not be possible if CO2 levels rise to 500 ppm because there may not be enough carbonate ions present. Refer to Hoegh-Guldberg 1999 for more information.
Warming may also be the basis of a new emerging problem: increasing coral diseases. Warming, thought to be the main cause of coral bleaching, weakens corals. In their weakened state, coral is much more prone to diseases including black band disease, white band disease and skeletal eroding band. If global temperatures increase by 2 C, coral may not be able to adapt quickly enough physiologically or genetically. It has been estimated that, in order to counter the threat of ocean acidification through global warming, a reduction of up to 40% of current emissions is needed, and up to 95% by 2050. This requires emission reductions larger than the reductions currently proposed for these dates by the EU.
Ocean acidification
Main article: Ocean acidification
Bamboo coral is an early harbinger of ocean acification
Another problem related to climate change is ocean acidification. Ocean acidification results from increases in the atmospheric carbon dioxide, which increases the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans. The dissolved carbon dioxide gas reacts with the water to form carbonic acid, and thus acidifies the ocean. This decreasing ocean surface pH is another long-term concern for the survival of coral reefs.
Ocean surface pH is estimated to have decreased from about 8.25 to 8.14 since the beginning of the industrial era, and it is estimated that it will drop by a further 0.30.4 units by 2100 as the ocean absorbs more anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Normally, the conditions for calcium carbonate production are stable in surface waters since the carbonate ion is at supersaturating concentrations. However, as ocean pH falls, so does the concentration of this ion, and when carbonate becomes under-saturated, structures made of calcium carbonate are vulnerable to dissolution. Research has already found that corals experience reduced calcification or enhanced dissolution when exposed to elevated CO2.
Bamboo coral is a deep sea coral which produces growth rings similar to a tree. The growth rings picture how growth rates change as deep sea condition change over time, and can also record changes due to ocean acidification. This coral is especially long-lived. Coral specimens as old as 4,000 years old have given scientists “4,000 years worth of information about what has been going on in the deep ocean interior”.
Other issues
Eroded coral
Within the last 20 years, once prolific seagrassbeds and mangrove forests, which absorb massive amounts of nutrients and sediment, have been destroyed. Both the loss of wetlands, mangrove habitats and seagrassbeds affect the water quality of inshore reefs.
Coral mining is another threat. Both small scale harvesting by villagers and industrial scale mining by companies are serious threats. Mining is usually done to produce construction material which is valued as much as 50% cheaper than other rocks, such as from quarries. The rocks are ground and mixed with other materials, like cement to make concrete. Ancient coral used for construction is known as coral rag. Building directly on the reef also takes its toll, altering water circulation and the tides which bring the nutrients to the reef. The pressing reason for building on reefs is simply lack of space.
Boats and ships require access points into bays and islands to load and unload cargo and people. For this, parts of reefs are often chopped away to clear a path. Although this may seems a minor destruction of the reef, negative consequences can include altered water circulation and altered tidal patterns which result in a turnaround in the reef’s supply of nutrients; sometimes destroying a great part of the reef. Fishing vessels and other large boats occasionally run aground on a reef. Two types of damage can result. Collision damage occurs when a coral reef is crushed and split by a vessel’s hull into multiple fragments. Scarring occurs when boat propellers tear off the live coral and expose the skeleton. The physical damage can be noticed as striations in the reefs. Mooring also causes damage which can be reduced by using mooring buoys.
Threatened species
The global standard for recording threatened marine species is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This list is the foundation for marine conservation priorities worldwide. A species is listed in the threatened category if it is considered to be critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable. Other categories are near threatened and data deficient. By 2008, the IUCN had assessed all known reef-building corals species as follows
Group
Species
Threatened
Near threatened
Data deficient
Reef-building corals
845
27%
20%
17%
The coral triangle (Indo-Malay-Philippine archipelago) region has the highest number of reef-building coral species in threatened category as well as the highest coral species diversity. The loss of coral reef ecosystems will have devastating effects on many marine species, as well as on people that depend on reef resources for their livelihoods.
Protected areas
Main article: Coral reef protection
Coral reefs and fish in Papua New Guinea
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have become increasingly prominent for reef management. MPAs in Southeast Asia and elsewhere around the world attempt to promote responsible fishery management and habitat protection. Much like national parks and wild life refuges, MPAs prohibit potentially damaging extraction activities. The objectives of MPAs are both social and biological, including reef restoration, aesthetics, increased and protected biodiversity, and economic benefits. Conflicts surrounding MPAs involve lack of participation, clashing views and perceptions of effectiveness, and funding.
Biosphere reserves are other protected areas that may protect reefs. Also, Marine parks, as well as world heritage sites can protect reefs. World heritage designation can also play a vital role. For example the Chagos archipelago, Sian Ka’an, the Great Barrier Reef, Henderson Island, the Galapagos islands, Belize’s Barrier reef and Palau have been designated as protected by nomination as a world heritage site.
In Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and is the subject of much legislation, including a Biodiversity Action Plan.
Inhabitants of Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, have followed a generations-old practice of restricting fishing in six areas of their reef lagoon. Their cultural traditions allow line fishing but not net and spear fishing. The result is that both the biomass and individual fish sizes are significantly larger in these areas than in places where fishing is unrestricted.
Restoration technologies
Main article: Coral reef restoration
Low voltage electrical currents applied through seawater crystallize dissolved minerals onto steel structures. The resultant white carbonate (aragonite) is the same mineral that makes up natural coral reefs. Corals rapidly colonize and grow at accelerated rates on these coated structures. The electrical currents also accelerate formation and growth of both chemical limestone rock and the skeletons of corals and other shell-bearing organisms. The vicinity of the anode and cathode provides a high pH environment which inhibits the growth of filamentous and fleshy algae, which compete with coral for space. The increased growth rates cease when the mineral accretion process stops.
During mineral accretion, the settled corals display an increased growth rate, and size, and density, but after the process is complete, growth rate and density return to levels that are comparable to naturally growing corallites, and are about the same size or slightly smaller.
In large restoration projects, depending on the type of coral, placement of propagated hermatype coral unto substrate is often done with metal pins, superglue or milliput. Needle and thread can also attach A-hermatype coral to substrate. Concrete has also been used to restore large sections of broken coral reef. Finally, special structures as reef balls can be placed to provide corals a base to grow on.
Organizations
Organizations which currently undertake coral reef/atoll restoration projects using simple methods of plant propagation:
Coral Cay
Counterpart
U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (CRTF)
National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI)
US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Coral Reef Conservation Program
National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE)
Reef Ball
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI)
Foundation of the peoples of the South Pacific
WorldFishCenter: promotes sustainable mariculture techniques to grow reef organisms as tridacnidae
Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) : Adopt a Coral
Organizations which promote interest, provide knowledge bases about coral reef survival, and promote activities to protect and restore coral reefs:
Australian Coral Reef Society
Biosphere Foundation
Chagos Conservation Trust
Conservation Society of Pohnpei
Coral Reef Care
Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL)
Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management
Coral Triangle Initiative
Cousteau Society
Crusoe Reef Society
CEDAM International
Earthwatch
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Solutions International
Friends of Saba Marine Park
Global Coral Reef Alliance (GCRA)
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
ICRAN Mesoamerican Reef Alliance
International Marinelife Alliance
International Society for Reef Studies
Intercoast Network
Kosrae Conservation and Safety Organization
Marine Conservation Group
Marine Conservation Society
Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative (MARTI)
NSF Moorea Coral Reef Long-term Ecological Research site
Nature Conservancy
Ocean Voice International
PADI
Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
Practical Action
Project Reefkeeper
ReefBase
Reef Check
Reef Relief
Reefwatch
Seacology
SECORE
Singapore Underwater Federation
Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology
Tubbataha Foundation
Wildlife Conservation International
WWF
Reefs in the past
Ancient coral reefs
Throughout Earth history, from a few thousand years after hard skeletons were developed by marine organisms, there were almost always reefs. The times of maximum development were in the Middle Cambrian (513-501 Ma), Devonian (416-359 Ma) and Carboniferous (359-299 Ma), due to Order Rugosa extinct corals, and Late Cretaceous (100-65 Ma) and all Neogene (23 Ma – present), due to Order Scleractinia corals.
Not all reefs in the past were formed by corals: in the Early Cambrian (542-513 Ma) resulted from calcareous algae and archaeocyathids (small animals with conical shape, probably related to sponges) and in the Late Cretaceous (100 – 65 Ma), when there also existed reefs formed by a group of bivalves called rudists; one of the valves formed the main conical structure and the other, much smaller valve acted as a cap.
See also
Ecology portal
Marine biology
List of environmental issues
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