Coral Reef Ecosystems

Yap, Helen

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_728

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“…Coral reefs provide several ecosystem services such as fisheries, tourism and protection to the coastal habitats of tropical and subtropical countries (Yap 2012). Despite of their global importance, the ecological, economic and social integrity of this ecosystem is degrading at an alarming rate due to several natural and anthropogenic disturbances (Barbier 2017;Cox et al 2017;Woodhead et al 2019).…”

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Photographic evidence of fish assemblage in artificial reef site of Palk Bay - an implication for marine resource management

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In 2021, a reef restoration programme was introduced to the selected sites of Palk Bay to improve coral nurseries and assist with the establishment of artificial reefs by implementing local coral transplantation. To monitor the growth and survival of transplanted corals, numerous fish assemblages have been observed in restoration sites which are positive sign of reef recovery and also enrich marine resources in Palk Bay. Photographic evidence of the fish assemblages were collected during surveys and detailed observations have been discussed in the present paper.

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Photographic evidence of fish assemblage in artificial reef site of Palk Bay - an implication for marine resource management

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Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review

Sharma

Chatterjee

2017

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Human populations are using oceans as their household dustbins, and microplastic is one of the components which are not only polluting shorelines but also freshwater bodies globally. Microplastics are generally referred to particles with a size lower than 5 mm. These microplastics are tiny plastic granules and used as scrubbers in cosmetics, hand cleansers, air-blasting. These contaminants are omnipresent within almost all marine environments at present. The durability of plastics makes it highly resistant to degradation and through indiscriminate disposal they enter in the aquatic environment. Today, it is an issue of increasing scientific concern because these microparticles due to their small size are easily accessible to a wide range of aquatic organisms and ultimately transferred along food web. The chronic biological effects in marine organisms results due to accumulation of microplastics in their cells and tissues. The potential hazardous effects on humans by alternate ingestion of microparticles can cause alteration in chromosomes which lead to infertility, obesity, and cancer. Because of the recent threat of microplastics to marine biota as well as on human health, it is important to control excessive use of plastic additives and to introduce certain legislations and policies to regulate the sources of plastic litter. By setup various plastic recycling process or promoting plastic awareness programmes through different social and information media, we will be able to clean our sea dustbin in future.

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Coral Reef Ecosystems

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Photographic evidence of fish assemblage in artificial reef site of Palk Bay - an implication for marine resource management

Photographic evidence of fish assemblage in artificial reef site of Palk Bay - an implication for marine resource management

Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review

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