coral reef ecosystem
Defined in 3 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.
The term "coral reef ecosystem" means—
(A) corals and other geographically and ecologically associated marine communities of other reef organisms (including reef plants and animals) associated with coral reef habitat; and
(B) the biotic and abiotic factors and processes that control or significantly affect coral calcification rates, tissue growth, reproduction, recruitment, abundance, coral-algal symbiosis, and biodiversity in such habitat.
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- 2022–present16 U.S.C. § 6415Conservation · Definitions · in this chapter
The term "coral reef ecosystem" means any coral reef and any coastal marine ecosystem surrounding, or directly related to, a coral reef and important to maintaining the ecological integrity of that coral reef, such as seagrasses, mangroves, sandy seabed communities, and immediately adjacent coastal areas.
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- 2018–present22 U.S.C. § 2431AForeign Relations and Intercourse · Definitions · as used in this subchapter
The terms “conservation”, “coral”, “coral reef”, “coral reef ecosystem”, “covered reef manager”, “covered State”, “Federal reef manager”, “National Coral Reef Resilience Strategy”, “restoration”, “resilience”, and “State” have the meanings given those terms in section 6415 of this title, as added by this division.
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- 2022–present16 U.S.C. § 6456Conservation · Definitions · in this subchapter