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Coral reef ecology --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Ecology
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Coral reef biology --- Coral reef ecology --- Coral reefs and islands
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Marine ecosystem management --- Marine ecology --- Coral reef ecology --- Marine biology
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This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, this reef is the second largest coral structure on the planet. Imperiled Reef searches out the breathtaking intricacies of this endangered ecological treasure.
Coral reef ecology --- Mesoamerican Reef. --- Caribbean Sea. --- Caribbean Sea
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An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefs When mass coral bleaching and die-offs were first identified in the 1980s, and eventually linked to warming events, the scientific community was sure that such a dramatic and unambiguous signal would serve as a warning sign about the devastating effects of global warming. Instead, the resulting decades have witnessed yet more degradation. Reefs around the world have lost more than 50 percent of their living coral since the 1970s. In this book, distinguished marine ecologist Peter F. Sale imparts his passion for the unexpected beauty, complexity, and necessity of coral reefs. By placing reefs in the wider context of global climate change, Sale demonstrates how their decline is more than simply a one-off environmental tragedy, but rather an existential warning to humanity. He offers a reframing of the enormous challenge humanity faces as a noble venture to steer the planet into safe waters that might even retain some coral reefs.
Coral reef ecology. --- Coral reef conservation. --- Coral bleaching. --- Climatic changes.
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Corals have thrived on the bottom of the ocean for millions of years. These fascinating animals are currently forced to cope with the rapid changes caused by humans to avoid extinction. How are corals changing their way of processing energy from different sources? What do we know about the corals living in the unseen depths of certain seamounts? What is the impact of oil spills and what can we do? How are coral reefs all over the world to be restored? What is the socioeconomic importance of these habitats, and what do we gain or lose with their survival or their demise? By involving scientists and conservationists from different areas of the world, this book answers these and other questions about corals, the habitat they form, and the influence that we have on them.
Coral reef biology. --- Coral reef ecology. --- Marine biology --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Ecology
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Coral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns about the future health of coral reefs, and recognition that reefs and their fishes are economically important components of the coastal oceans of many tropical nations, have led to enormous growth in research directed at reef fishes. Coral Reef Fishes is much more than a simple revision of the earlier volume; it is a companion that supports and extends the earlier work. The included syntheses prov
Coral reef ecology. --- Coral reef fishes. --- Coral reef fishes--Ecology. Coral reef ecology. --- Ecology. --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Coral reef fishes --- Coral reefs and islands --- Coral fishes --- Ecology --- Reef ecology --- Coral reef animals --- Reef fishes
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During the late 1960's and 1970's, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled. The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for answers to the...
Crown-of-thorns starfish. --- Coral reef ecology. --- Coral reef ecology --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Acanthaster planci --- Acanthaster --- Research. --- Ecology --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Ecology --- Aquatic Ecology --- Marine Ecology.
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This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food webs are viewed as open anddynamic systems. The central theme of the book is that the basis of ecosystem persistence and stability rests on the
Coral reef ecology. --- Food chains (Ecology). --- Science -- Experiments. --- Science -- Study and teaching. --- General ecology and biosociology --- Food chains (Ecology) --- Ecology.
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The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With contributions from international experts, this timely and fully updated second edition describes the animals, plants and other organisms of the reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. It contains new chapters on shelf slopes and fisheries and addresses pressing issues such as climate change, ocean acidification, coral bleaching and disease and invasive species. This is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a reference text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
Coral reef ecology --- Marine biodiversity --- Diversity, Marine biological --- Marine biological diversity --- Aquatic biodiversity --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Ecology --- Coral reef ecology. --- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) --- Environmental conditions. --- Management. --- Environmental conditions --- Management --- Coral reef ecology - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) --- Marine biodiversity - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) --- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) - Environmental conditions --- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) - Management
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