Coral Reefs
Subtitle: Ecosystems of the World, Vol. 25 (Ecosystems of the World)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: November 1, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780444873927
First sentence: Reefs are marine, biogenic wave-resistant carbonate structures, also known as bioherms, composed of the shells or skeletons of hermatypic, or reef-building, organisms.