珊瑚动物

Home to the Western Hemisphere's longest coral reef and hundreds of acres of deciduous, evergreen, swamp, and mangrove forests, Belize is among the richest habitats on Earth, supporting wildlife such as tapirs, jaguars, pumas, crocodiles, turtles, and hundreds of species of birds and amphibians.

拥有着西半球的最长的珊瑚暗礁和数百英亩的落叶树，长绿树，沼泽，和红树森林，伯利兹是富饶的动植物栖息地，这里生活着野生动植物像貘，美洲虎，美洲狮，鳄鱼，海龟和数百种类的鸟类及两栖类动物。

Home to the Western Hemisphere's longest coral reef and hundreds of acres of deciduous, evergreen, swamp, and mangrove forests, Belize is among the richest habitats on Earth, supporting wildlife such as tapirs, jaguars, pumas, crocodiles, turtles, and hundreds of species of birds and amphibians.

居住在西半球的长珊瑚暗礁和数百英亩的每年落叶的，长绿树，沼泽，和红树森林，伯利兹是在地球中富饶的动植物栖息地，支持着野生动植物像貘，美洲虎，美洲狮，鳄鱼，海龟和数百种类的鸟类及两栖类动物。

Department of Ecology and Biodiversity is primarily dedicated to education and research in ecology and biodiversity including conservation biology, coral ecology, ecotoxicology, environmental microbiology, fungal biodiversity, mangrove ecology, microbiology, molecular ecology and evolution, molecular microbial ecology, molecular phylogenetics, plant pathology, plant systematics and evolution, plant-animal interactions, pollution biology, terrestrial ecology.

生态学和生物多样性学系创建于1994年，主要致力于生态学和生物多样性学的教学与研究，其研究领域包括保护生物学，珊瑚生态学，生态毒理学，环境微生物学，真菌生物多样性，红树林生态学，微生物学，分子生态学和进化，分子微生物生态学，分子系统发生学，植物病理学，植物分类学和进化，植物－动物相互关系，污染生物学，陆生生态学等。

Wildlife groups want the government in Canberra to give it full environmental protection and create what would be the world's largest marine park.

野生动物组织要求堪培拉所在的政府为珊瑚海提供完全的环境保护措施并为其世界最大的海洋公园创造条件。

Sponges, corals and brachiopods, however, cannot do this.

而海绵类、珊瑚类和腕足类动物则做不到这一点。

Sponges, corals and brachiopods (a once-widespread group that looka bit like bivalve molluscs) were particularly badly hit.

海绵、珊瑚、以及&腕足类动物&（一种在地球上广泛分布的看似双壳类的软体动物）的生存就受到了尤为巨大的冲击。

Sponges, corals and brachiopods (aonce-widespread group that looka bit like bivalve molluscs) wereparticularly badly hit.

海绵、珊瑚、以及&腕足类动物&（一种在地球上广泛分布的看似双壳类的软体动物）的生存就受到了尤为巨大的冲击。

Off Scotts Head, Dominica Island, a sunken garden of sponges and coral rewards a visitor, part of a growing stream of divers discovering Dominica's marine life.

在多米尼克岛Scotts沿海，由海绵动物和珊瑚铺成的水下花园招待了一位访客，他是越来越多来探索多米尼克的海洋生物的其中一个潜水者。

Off Scotts Head, Dominica Island, a sunken garden of sponges and coral rewards a visitor, part of a growing stream of divers discovering Dominica's marine life.

离开斯科特头部，多米尼加岛屿，一个低洼花园的海绵动物和珊瑚奖励一个游客，潜水员发现多米尼加的海洋生物在一部分扩大的水流。

More than half of Southeast Asia's coral species diversity is found in the South China Sea. 75 species of sponges and 118 species of echinoderms in the South China Sea are endemic. The reefs ecosystem is known to provide ecological goods and services.

东南亚的珊瑚种类有超过一半的分布在南中国海，75种的海绵以及118种的棘皮类动物属于南中国海的地方特有种。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。