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• Threats to the coastal zone
  ...ent discharge, and large amounts of sediments can bury or otherwise damage reefs. Tropical cyclones (hurricanes) form over the warm oceans (at least 26^o C) mainly over the western parts where no cold cur
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• Global Forum of Oceans, Coasts and Islands
  ...ations) with the common goal of encouraging the sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and islands. ==Third Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands==
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• Seagrass meadows
  ...eanic detrital food webs. Although seagrasses cover only about 0.1% of the oceans<ref name=S3>Spalding, M., Taylor, M., Ravilious, C., Short, F. and Green, E Seagrasses generally inhabit the protected shallow waters of temperate and tropical coastal areas. Seagrass can be patchy, but more often it forms large swaths
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• Coral reefs
  This article describes the habitat and functions of coral reefs. It is one of the sub-categories within the section dealing with biodiversi [[image:Coral reef.jpg|right|thumb|300px|caption|Fig. 1. Coral reef with fishes <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_reef</ref>]]
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• Coastal cities and sea level rise
  ...as less than 2 m above sea level, of which 59% in tropical Asia and 10% in tropical Africa. An important part of the economy of coastal states is concentrated ...as raw materials for construction <ref>Wilkinson, C. 2001. Status of coral reefs of the world 2000. Queensland (Australia): Australia Institute of Marine Sc
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• Biodiversity hotspots
  ...ience 295, 1280-1284.</ref>. Distribution records of 3235 species of fish, coral, snails and lobsters were used to identify 18 centres of endemism. A total [[Image:Robertsetal.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Figure 1: Coral reefs: global hotspots]]
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• Public participation in coastal management in Honduras
  ...include flooded savannas, marshes, lakes, mangroves, rocky beaches, coral reefs, and mangrove lined lagoons linked by rivers and channels.<ref name="Encycl ...which brings attention to the need to protect our planet’s coral reefs, oceans and underwater world. Thousands of divers volunteers in more than 115 count
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• Future marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research issues
  ...ll understand the ocean less than the terrestrial environment. For us, the oceans are foreign habitats which we may enter but not yet inhabit. systems, from [[Sea ice_ecosystems|polar ice]] to [[coral reefs]] are charismatic systems which are highly vulnerable to temperature, sea-l
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• Marine Biotechnology at Pan-European level
  ...rounding Europe’s ultra-peripheral regions, many of which are located in tropical latitudes with high biodiversity. The European landmass has a coastline of ..., deepsea, polar and tropical marine environments, tropical and cold coral reefs, deep-sea anoxic sediments and brine lakes, continental margin cold seeps a
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• Threats to Coral Reefs: the Effects of Chemical Pollution
  ...491 Spalding, M., Green, E., & Ravilious, C. (2001). World Atlas of Coral Reefs. UNEP-WCMC.]</ref>. ...eaching|bleaching]]. Bleaching is caused by loss of zooxanthellae from the coral tissues, a well-recognised sub-lethal stress response. Jones (1997) <ref na
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• Coral Molecular Biomarkers
  == An Overview of the Ecotoxicology of Coral == ...rized in corals, as well as the effects of major stress-inducing agents on coral are discussed.
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• Characteristics of sedimentary shores
  ...oasts seasonally subjected to storm waves. Red: Coasts yearly subjected to tropical storms. Green: Coasts frequently subjected to ocean swell waves. Adapted fr ...sediment may also be delivered by cliff erosion or by erosion of offshore reefs. This is often the case of [[Gravel Beaches|gravel beaches]], which consist
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• Threats to cold water coral reefs, sand banks and seagrass habitats in the North Sea by climate change effects
  [[climate change]], [[coral reefs]], sand banks, [[seagrass]] meadows, temperature rise, [[Extreme storms|sto ...iated along with the examples of highly diverse ecosystems such as [[coral reefs]]. <ref name=L>Lovejoy, T. and Hannah, L. 2005. Chapter 16 Climate change a
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• Coastal and marine sediments
  ...ch weathering occurs depends on the local climate, with rapid breakdown in tropical areas, favoured by abundant rainfall and high temperatures, and with slow w ...liman, J. D. and Meade, R. H. 1983. World-wide delivery of sediment to the oceans. Journal of Geology 91, 1–21</ref>.]]
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• Seaweed (macro-algae) ecosystem services
  ...oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species. ...ut two thousand km², while ca. 48 million km² of the oceans are suitable for seaweed aquaculture<ref name=F19>Froehlich, H.E., Afflerba
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• Coral islands
  It is recommended to read this article together with the article [[Coral reefs]]. ==Coral island development==
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