Status of Coral Reefs in the Western Atlantic
Author | : Judith C. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Coral reef ecology |
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Author | : Judith C. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Coral reef ecology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lauretta Marie Burke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Many coastal communities in Latin America and the Caribbean depend on the resources provided by reefs for their livelihoods. The Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean project is a response to an information need. The primary goal is to raise awareness and improve management by improving the knowledge base on the status of and threats to coral reefs.
Author | : David Hopley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1226 |
Release | : 2010-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 904812638X |
Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from an earth science perspective, concentrating especially on modern reefs. Currently coral reefs are under high stress, most prominently from climate change with changes to water temperature, sea level and ocean acidification particularly damaging. Modern reefs have evolved through the massive environmental changes of the Quaternary with long periods of exposure during glacially lowered sea level periods and short periods of interglacial growth. The entries in this encyclopedia condense the large amount of work carried out since Charles Darwin first attempted to understand reef evolution. Leading authorities from many countries have contributed to the entries covering areas of geology, geography and ecology, providing comprehensive access to the most up-to-date research on the structure, form and processes operating on Quaternary coral reefs.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Coral reef ecology |
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Author | : André Freiwald |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1242 |
Release | : 2006-01-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540276734 |
Cold-water coral ecosystems figure the formation of large seabed structures such as reefs and giant carbonate mounds; they represent unexplored paleo-environmental archives of earth history. Like their tropical cousins, cold-water coral ecosystems harbour rich species diversity. For this volume, key institutions in cold-water coral research have contributed 62 state-of-the-art articles on topics from geology and oceanography to biology and conservation, with some impressive underwater images.
Author | : Sergio Rossi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319210117 |
During the last decades there has been an increasing evidence of drastic changes in marine ecosystems due to human-induced impacts, especially on benthic ecosystems. The so called “animal forests” are currently showing a dramatic loss of biomass and biodiversity all over the world. These communities are dominated by sessile suspension feeder organisms (such as sponges, corals, gorgonians, bivalves, etc.) that generate three-dimensional structures, similar to the trees in the terrestrial forest. The animal forest provide several ecosystem services such as food, protection and nursery to the associated fauna, playing an important role in the local hydrodynamic and biogeochemical cycles near the sea floor and acting also as carbon sinks. The present book focus its attention on these three dimensional animal structures including, for the first time, all the different types of animal forests of the world in a single volume.
Author | : Caroline Sutherland Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Coral reef ecology |
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Author | : J. Cortés |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2003-04-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080535399 |
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Author | : Bernhard M. Riegl |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 811 |
Release | : 2008-03-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402068476 |
Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories. It is written by the most experienced authorities in their fields and geographic areas. Stretching from the Caribbean to the western Pacific, the coral reefs of the USA span extensive geographic and biotic diversity, occur in a wide variety of geomorphological settings, and provide a representative cross-section of Holocene reef-building. This book will therefore be of broad general interest. For the first time, complete scholarly reviews are given for the geology, geomorphology and the biology of reefs encompassing a vast area stretching from the Mariana Islands in the west, Samoa in the south, Hawaii in the north and the Virgin Islands in the east. This book is not a status report, but will provide up-to-date information about stressors and the biotic responses of the reefs, as well as the geological explanations why these reefs exist in the first place. It will be an invaluable baseline-reference for all those who are engaged in research or management of these coral reefs or to those who simply enjoy being well-informed about one of the most iconic ecosystems of the USA.
Author | : Eugene Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2004-04-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783540207726 |
This book opens with case studies of reefs in the Red Sea, Caribbean, Japan, Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. A section on microbial ecology and physiology describes the symbiotic relations of corals and microbes, and the microbial role in nutrition or bleaching resistance of corals. Coral diseases are covered in the third part. The volume includes 50 color photos of corals and their environments