Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found ...

2009). Charles Darwin first proposed the theory of atoll reef formation. He postulated that fringing reefs develop close to the shoreline in shallow waters around volcanic islands (Figure 6).

There are three main types of coral reefs: fringing, barrier and atoll, the most common of which is the fringing reef. A ...

For thousands of years, the people of Ulithi atoll have managed their reef atoll ecosystem using traditional knowledge. Wedged between Japan, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, they've used ...

ARTE/GombessaExpedition2017 At the south end of Fakarava Atoll, a 35-mile-long rectangle of coral in French Polynesia, a narrow channel cuts through the barrier reef. Every June thousands of ...

A reef such as the one that encircles Île Europa ... but also to a million breeding pairs of seabirds. Bassas is an atoll that barely shows above the waterline and has a shark-filled lagoon ...