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Above, the Medusa-like arms of a northern basket star seek a meal of zooplankton beside a polar alcyonarian soft coral in the shallows beneath an ice sheet in the Canadian Arctic.

意译：在加拿大北极圈的一层薄冰之下，一种两极生活的低级腔肠动物软珊瑚类，被那一组令人恐怖的像蛇发女怪的肢体在北极地域寻找软珊瑚做为一顿美餐。

The paper discusses the grain compressibility,crushability,shearing and strength characteristics of coral sand and points out that it has the characteristics of high porosity ratio,high friction angle and low strength.

特殊的物质组成、结构和发育环境导致珊瑚砂具有独特的工程性质。文章综述了珊瑚砂的压缩性、破碎性、剪切特性和强度特性，指出了其显著的土力学特点：高孔隙比、高摩擦角和低强度值。

Contrary to our expectations, the diversity of zooxanthellae is similar for the two genera, indicating that the mode of symbiont transmission (i.e. maternal versus horizontal) does not affect symbiont diversity in acroporid corals.

与我们期待相反的是在这两个属珊瑚中含有的共生藻多样性却非常相似，这表明在石珊瑚中共生藻的传递模式并不会影响共生藻的多样性。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

建立供养独占的在珊瑚上像这个细长的柳珊瑚，一种半透明的1.7英寸长（4.3厘米长）Phyllodesmium iriomotense房子它的分支消化腺在触须里面-像露鳃-自然结果这动物能流出液体假如受到攻击。

The pattern of lunar cycle can be classified into three strategies:(1) Planulation of S. hystrix and P. damicornis showed clear lunar periodicity and the peak of larval release shifted with different months. The peak of planulation occurred around the full moon in winter then shifted gradually to the first quarter moon phase in summer. The phase shift of larval release may be related to the seasonal variation of seawater temperature and the sudden temperature drops caused by upwelling.(2) Planulation of S. pistillata showed clear lunar periodicity and the peak of larval release occurred around the full moon.

在月周期方面可分成三种生殖策略：(1)尖枝列孔珊瑚与细枝鹿角珊瑚释放幼生不但有明显的月周期，而且释放幼生的高峰会随著月份而移动，由冬季至夏季期间，高峰从满月前后转变至上弦月前后；再由夏季至冬季期间，高峰从上弦月前后转变至满月前后，而此变动形成一个完整的年周期，原因可能与海水温度影响配子发育和胚胎速度与夏季期间涌升流所造成的降温有关。

The characteristics of density bands of Porites coral from Meiji reef in Nansha area are revealed by X-radiography of coral slabs and periodical changes of δ^18 O and δ^13 C in the skeletons.

结合珊瑚骨骼X射线照片和δ^18O、δ^13C的年际变化，对南沙群岛美济礁滨珊瑚骨骼岩心的密度条带进行了分析，发现其密度带变化模式多样，初步可归纳为如下3种类型：(1)宽度相近的高低密度条纹均匀、相间地排列，一对高低密度条带平均宽约4mm；(2)在骨骼主生长轴上由近于均匀分布的细密度条带组成。

A shrimp looks out from an anchor coral in Maumere Bay in Indonesia. Anchor coral, also called hammer coral, have anchor-shaped ends to their tentacles.

意译：在印度尼西亚的海湾，有一只小虾从一个锚珊瑚虫观看，锚珊瑚也叫铁锤珊瑚，有像锚那样的外形的触须。

"Healthy and intact coral reefs need large predatory fish in order to continue to provide human societies with food and with beauty," study author Chris Stallings, a researcher at Florida State University's Coastal and Marine Laboratory, told National Geographic News.

克里斯。斯大林斯------佛罗里达州立大学海洋海岸实验室的研究学者在接受美国国家地理杂志采访时指出：健康且完整的珊瑚嶕群落给人类社会提供了更多的食物和丰富观赏性，珊瑚嶕的保护离不开大型食肉鱼类

These ECOPATH models showed that the proportion of benthic invertebrates was higher, but that of macroalgae was lower in soft-coral-dominated systems than in stony-coral-dominated systems. Sedimented organic detritus was higher in sea-anemone-dominated systems.

模式结果显示不同群聚之生态系的差别除了优势生物群聚不同外，软珊瑚区的底栖无脊椎动物比例较硬珊瑚区高，且藻类较少，而海葵区的沉积有机碎屑较多，但三区的鱼类生物量都不多。

Patterns in Nature: Coral Similar to all corals, sea fans, such as this one in the Turks and Caicos Islands, are made up of tiny animals called polyps.

意译：珊瑚在自然界的模式。相似的全部珊瑚，海扇，像这个在土耳其和Caicos岛屿，是制造很少的动物叫珊瑚虫。

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。