摘要
珊瑚礁因其美丽而得到赞赏。但珊瑚礁还有另一个更切实的好处。每天都有海浪冲洗海岸。当然,在暴风雨期间,你可能会遇到20英尺高的海浪。珊瑚礁正在拍碎这些海浪,在海浪抵达海岸之前,珊瑚礁基本可以消耗掉海浪的能量。麦克·贝克是自然保护协会和加州大学圣克鲁兹分校的海洋科学家,他说:'如果我们只是损失掉一点点珊瑚礁.
they provide another,more tangible benefit,too.Every day waves are coming ashore.And of course during storms you might have 20-foot waves.The reef is breaking those waves,essentially dissipating that energy before they hit the shoreline.Mike Beck,a marine scientist for the Nature Conservancy and U.C.Santa Cruz,said,“If we’re to lose just a little bit of our reef—I mean we modeled just losing the topmost meter of reef—storm costs would double.
