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reef-building ADJ

reef-building

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This includes assessments of known species of shark, ray, chimaera, reef-building coral, grouper, marine turtle, seabird, and marine mammal.
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Climate change and ocean acidification have been steadily ramping up, with predictions that ocean warming will decimate reef-building corals by the middle of this century.
theconversation.com
Other marine creatures including squid relatives and reef-building clams also suffered major losses.
www.thehindu.com
Members of the family are colonial hermatypic (reef-building) corals.
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For artificial reefs and habitat development, typical reef-building biota find areas of low turbulence within the open spaces to establish colonies.
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Further north, unprecedented levels of coral bleaching and mortality were recorded for a range of reef-building coral species.
theconversation.com
Rising sea surface temperature was already "driving dramatic changes" in the growth rate in the important reef-building organism, they observed.
www.bbc.co.uk
Coral polyps - the tiny reef-building creatures - live in partnership with algae that provide nutrition and give corals their colour.
www.bbc.co.uk
One dominant reef-building organism took the place of another, in a slowly evolving faunal succession.
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Their mutualistic relationships with reef-building corals form the basis of a highly diverse and productive ecosystem.
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