The major agents of biological destruction of coral reefs can be divided into grazers, etchers
and borers. Each of these groups is reviewed on a world wide basis, together with the …

… coral reef destruction can provide impetus to improved reef management regimes. As better
information on costs and benefits of coral reef … need to invest in coral reef conservation. Often…

… It would be instructive to examine the types of natural destructive agency to which the
biota of coral reefs has been exposed f0r millenia and to compare these with the types of …

… of the coral reefs to recover. In the next part there is more about the destruction of coral reefs,
just … The findings in a research [8] highlight that reef complexity relies on living corals—with …

… of the economic value of coral reefs in Sri Lanka, and to evaluate the economic loss from
coral-reef destruction. We do so by looking at the coral reef as a resource and investigating the …

… The immediate fears were that major areas of living coral reef would be destroyed, taking
centuries to recover, and that this was an unprecedented event somehow connected to human …

… much less destructive component of coral reef ecosystems. If coral reefs are to resist phase
shifts after disturbance it is imperative that critical functional groups of fishes, corals and other …

… ecology, he stated that "the major cause of catastrophic coral mortality on reefs is mechanical
destruction during tropical storms" (Stoddart, 1969b). These studies, in addition to more …

… 0 6 D 5 1, are permanently destroyed and can never be colonized. Ultimately we seek to
determine the effects of habitat destruction on a model coral reef system.. The spatial growth of …

… The use of dynamite and poisons, including chlorox and cyanide, have been responsible
for the destruction of coral reefs throughout the world. Because of the size of the areas …