Latin American Coral Reefs
Author: J. Cortés
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2003-04-25
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 0080535399
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A Coral Reef Food Chain
Author: Donald Wojahn
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0761357149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to a Caribbean coral reef! As you snorkel just offshore, you see brilliant fish, waving sea anemones, diving turtles - maybe even a prowling barracuda! The coral reef is full of life - from coral polyps snagging plankton to a moray eel gobbling up a goby fish. Day and night on the coral reef, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, and plant to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the coral reef? Will you . . . Tail a tiger shark as it sniffs out its next victim? Check out a stingray crushing clams? Watch a feathery fan worm trap bits of leftovers? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!
Marine Animal Forests
Author: Sergio Rossi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783319210117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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
Published: 2004-04-27
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9783540207726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Caribbean Reef Life
Author: Mickey Charteris
Publisher:
Published: 1969-10-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780989052443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaribbean 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.
Reef Creature Identification
Author: Paul Humann
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781878348531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1992, this guide has been significantly expanded in a new 3rd edition. The popular, user-friendly field guide, covering all major groups of marine invertebrates encountered by divers on coral reefs and adjacent habitats, has grown to include 900 species beautifully documented with more than 1200 underwater photographs -- nearly doubling the total in the previous editions. Les Wilk has joined Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach authoring the comprehensive new edition.
The Caribbean Coral Reef
Author: William K. Sacco
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1000841472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a visual tour of Caribbean coral reefs between 1968 and 1978. They are the world’s second largest coral reef community and the most threatened. The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat offers a priceless historical record made by a photographer who set out to document the major reef species when those reefs were at their prime. Today, coral reefs are under threat as never before and, sadly, most of what is shown in the book's photographs is now gone forever. It is only by comparing the images in this book with what we see now that we are able to fully recognize what we have lost. With its stunning photography and precise, accurate scientific information, this book offers students of coral reefs a wealth of information about this rich, fragile ecosystem. It is also written accessibly for non-academic visitors to the Caribbean reef or anyone interested in the earth’s creatures. Many of the invertebrates will be unfamiliar to most people, and the author reveals fascinating insights into these otherworldly creatures and their lifestyles. Enjoy this field guide to the reefs that were, and savor the beauty of this vanishing environment and its organisms.
Imperiled Reef
Author: Sandy Sheehy
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781683402497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
A Guide to the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean
Author: Mark Spalding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780520244054
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Corals of Florida and the Caribbean
Author: George F. Warner
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0813059186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a stunning array of beauty and biodiversity, the coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean are part playground, part research lab for the thousands of tourists, divers, and marine scientists who visit them every year. Documenting the wide array of corals at home in the warm waters of the Caribbean, George Warner's Corals of Florida and the Caribbean provides an easy-to-use (and carry) guidebook that is both scientifically accurate and reader friendly. Warner provides an exhaustive identification guide that will enrich any novice's vacation dive or an expert's return to the reefs. Written for the amateur naturalist, this handbook will travel well throughout the Caribbean, from Florida south to Belize, east to Tobago, and all points in between. Beyond documenting the wide variety of corals found in the Caribbean, Warner also outlines their biology, from the way they grow to their reproductive habits, while examining major threats to the reefs including hurricanes, pollution, and global warming. With over 150 color photos, most taken by the author himself, as well as detailed descriptions, Corals of Florida and the Caribbean makes identifying and learning about corals hassle free--on the boat, at home, or in the classroom.
