Author: Lauretta Marie Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean
Author: Lauretta Marie Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean
Reefs at Risk Revisited
Author: Lauretta Marie Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reefs at Risk
Author: Dirk Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A global assessment of coral reefs at risk from overfishing, coastal development and other human activity. The study finds that nearly 60 per cent of the earth's reefs are threatened by human activity - ranging from coastal development and overfishing to inland and marine pollution - leaving much of the world's marine biodiversity at risk. In addition, the report concludes that while reefs provide billions of people and hundreds of countries with food, tourism revenue, coastal protection and new medications for increasingly drug-resistant diseases, they are among the least monitored and protected natural habitats in the world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A global assessment of coral reefs at risk from overfishing, coastal development and other human activity. The study finds that nearly 60 per cent of the earth's reefs are threatened by human activity - ranging from coastal development and overfishing to inland and marine pollution - leaving much of the world's marine biodiversity at risk. In addition, the report concludes that while reefs provide billions of people and hundreds of countries with food, tourism revenue, coastal protection and new medications for increasingly drug-resistant diseases, they are among the least monitored and protected natural habitats in the world.
Marine Animal Forests
Author: Sergio Rossi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319210117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319210117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Coral Health and Disease
Author: Eugene Rosenberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662064146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662064146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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
Imperiled Reef
Author: Sandy Sheehy
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN: 9781683402497
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN: 9781683402497
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Caribbean Reef Life
Author: Mickey Charteris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989052443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Caribbean Reef Life covers the full range of a coral reef's biodiversity. This expanded third edition is more than just an ID book; it aims to give divers a deeper understanding of these dynamic ecosystems and how different species, including our own, contribute to the reef as a whole.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989052443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Caribbean Reef Life covers the full range of a coral reef's biodiversity. This expanded third edition is more than just an ID book; it aims to give divers a deeper understanding of these dynamic ecosystems and how different species, including our own, contribute to the reef as a whole.
Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia
Author: Lauretta Marie Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Southeast Asia possesses the mots biologically diverse coral reefs on the planet; and they are severely threatened by human activities. This is a detailed evalution of the threats from over-fishing, pollution, development and more, and makes several recommendations for improved management.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Southeast Asia possesses the mots biologically diverse coral reefs on the planet; and they are severely threatened by human activities. This is a detailed evalution of the threats from over-fishing, pollution, development and more, and makes several recommendations for improved management.
Latin American Coral Reefs
Author: J. Cortés
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080535399
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 508
Book Description
Most of the coral reefs of the American continent: the Brazilian waters, the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean are in Latin American countries, the subject of this book. For the first time, information on coral reefs of such a vast region is mined from reports, obscure journals, university thesis and scientific journals, summarized and presented in a way both accessible and informative for the interested reader as well as for the coral reef expert. The chapters of the book, divided by country and ocean, were written by either scientists from the countries or by those that know the area well. Reefs not documented in the past are described in detail here, including location maps. The natural and anthropogenic impacts affecting the reefs are presented, as well as sections on management, conservation and legislation in each country. Nineteen chapters, plus an introduction, present information of coral reefs from Brazil to Mexico, and from Chile to Cuba.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080535399
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 508
Book Description
Most of the coral reefs of the American continent: the Brazilian waters, the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean are in Latin American countries, the subject of this book. For the first time, information on coral reefs of such a vast region is mined from reports, obscure journals, university thesis and scientific journals, summarized and presented in a way both accessible and informative for the interested reader as well as for the coral reef expert. The chapters of the book, divided by country and ocean, were written by either scientists from the countries or by those that know the area well. Reefs not documented in the past are described in detail here, including location maps. The natural and anthropogenic impacts affecting the reefs are presented, as well as sections on management, conservation and legislation in each country. Nineteen chapters, plus an introduction, present information of coral reefs from Brazil to Mexico, and from Chile to Cuba.