Author: Simpósio Fauna e Flora das Ilhas AtlânticasPublisher:
ISBN: 9789728612016
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Fauna and flora of the Atlantic Islands: proceedings
Author: Simpósio Fauna e Flora das Ilhas AtlânticasPublisher:
ISBN: 9789728612016
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Dorete--her Book
Author: S. A. BengtsonPublisher: Faroe University Press
ISBN: 9991865306
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants
Author: Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs
Author: David HopleyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 904812638X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
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.
Conservation of Islands in the Southern Ocean
Author: M. R. ClarkPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782880325039
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Zoological Record
Author: Fauna and Flora of Atlantic Islands
Author: T. J. HaydenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780955080609
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV
Author: Brian MortonPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622094376
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Following a three-year cycle, an International Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China was convened at the Swire Institute of Marine Science of the University of Hong Kong from 2-20 April 1995. Sixteen scientists from six countries and fifteen scientists and students from Hong Kong investigated aspects of the marine flora and fauna of the Cape d'Aguilar proposed marine reserve and the southeastern waters of Hong Kong. The marine flora and fauna of this area of Hong Kong is poorly known and, like others locally, is threatened by pollution. Such broad-based studies of this area of Hong Kong's waters are needed urgently. The Proceedings of the workshop contain thirty-one original research papers dealing with aspects of the taxonomy and ecology of Hong Kong's marine life with particular reference to the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve and the benthic fauna of its territorial waters. The workshop was sponsored by the University of Hong Kong to bring scientists and students together to study the shores and seas around its infant institute of marine science. The success of the workshop is self-evident in the contents and scope of these proceedings. This venture, like the first workshop, convened in 1977, on the shores of the now disastrously polluted Tolo Harbour, is a landmark publication. It is a significant compilation of wide-ranging research papers on an area of Hong Kong that has been, hitherto, little-studied but which will, one day, be of vital conservation interest to local people, if any of the territory's now threatened marine life is to survive.
Index of Conference Proceedings
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Coral Reefs of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories
Author: Charles SheppardPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400759657
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The tropical UK Territories have extensive coral reefs. Huge parts of these areas are exceptionally rich, productive and diverse. Their marine biodiversity exceeds that of the UK itself, and several are already, or are planned to be, strictly protected. Some of these areas serve as reference sites for many other countries with damaged reefs and they are oases of tropical marine biodiversity in a fast-degrading world. This book reviews all of the UK reefs, from those scarcely known to those where substantial research has already been performed.