reef betydelse and definition

Exempel på reef

• Heterotrophic systems may be of different size and complexity such as an island, most cities, an oyster reef or a sewage treatment plant.

• Do the restricted water volumes on the reef flat influence the success of parasites?

• Relationship between cleaning rates and ectoparasite loads in coral reef fishes.

• Small-scale fishing on coral reefs provides a useful setting in which to examine this question.

• For our analysis we conceive of the coral reef resource as simply as possible.

• Coral-microbial reefs of variable dimension are locally found in some of these sequences.

• In contrast, on reefs with cleaners, fish had several small copepods.

• One interesting conclusion is that one of the major controls on reef development is an intrinsic evolutionary component - the recruitment capacity of the macrofauna.