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Corals and Coral Reefs

Sargassum Seaweed

Glossary of Terms

Marsh, Salt

A marsh periodically flooded by salt water.

Environmental Valuation

Procedures for valuing changes in environmental goods and services, whether or not they are traded in markets, by measuring the changes in the consumer or producer surpluses associated with these environmental goods.

Zooxanthellae

Unicellular, symbiotic algae living within coral polyps that produce food for their hosts by photosynthesis and help efficiently recycle low-levels of nutrients.

Coral

Colonial animals in the phylum Cnidaria; mainly those that build reefs. "Coral" is also often used to refer to the hard, calcareous coral skeleton.

Climate

The characteristic weather of a region, particularly regarding temperature and precipitation, averaged over some significant internal of time (years).

Scarp, beach

An almost vertical slope along the beach caused by erosion by wave action. It may vary in height from a few cm to a metre or so, depending on wave action and the nature and composition of the beach.

A steep slope, usually along the foreshore and/or at the vegetation line formed by wave attack.

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