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Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs

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Introduction

The coral reefs of the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific do not differ fundamentally in their structural forms, their habitats and the interaction of their species, even though the organisms occupying specific ecological roles vary greatly between oceans and even between individual reefs. Goreau et al. (1979, p. 135)

Despite the similarity between the geomorphology of coral reefs noted by the Goreaus and others (Wells, 1957; Stoddart, 1969), much of the emphasis in characterizing coral-reef zonation has been ecological using either statistically defined coral assemblages or more simply, the morphology of the corals themselves (Wells, 1957; Rosen, 1975; Geister, 1977; Pichon, 1978; Chappell, 1980; Done, 1982; Done, 1983). Most of these studies have found that shallow coral assemblages show a distinct zonation as wave energy, and hydrodynamic disturbance varies with depth and margin exposure. For example, Done (1982) found that shallow communities changed with a...

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Blanchon, P. (2011). Geomorphic Zonation. In: Hopley, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2639-2_33

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