coral reef
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The overexploitation of parrotfish and other groupers threatens 63 percent of coral reef ecosystems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Coastal species like frogfish, which live in diverse and productive coral reef environments, exhibited much lower rates of evolutionary change than their counterparts in the deep sea.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
In the water, the rocks form a crescent shape that calms the waves and forms a coral reef perfect for snorkeling.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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