Authors:Bernhard Riegl, Richard E. Dodge,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: coral, reefs, world, usa
Number of Pages: 806
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402068468
ISBN-13: 9781402068461

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

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: earth, reefs
Published: 1977-10-15
List price: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0425035654
ISBN-13: 9780425035658

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: earth, reefs
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1968-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 188044898X
ISBN-13: 9781880448984

Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: reefs, coral
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0823420809
ISBN-13: 9780823420803

Marine biologists believe coral reefs existed 400 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Today this active environment is home to about 20,000 kinds of brilliantly coloured corals, plants, and animals-more sea creatures than are found anywhere else in the world. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is so large that astronauts can see it from outer space! But what is life like in a coral reef? What do corals eat? Why are corals more colourful at nighttime? Children will enjoy Gibbon’s informative text and clear, detailed illustrations on this journey into the unique lives of

Author: J. Cortés
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: reefs, coral, american, latin
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2003-05-09
List price: $207.00
ISBN-10: 0444513884
ISBN-13: 9780444513885

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

Author: Charles Darwi
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: reefs, coral, distribution, structure
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1977-02-24
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0520032829
ISBN-13: 9780520032828

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: distance, there was none with 210 fathoms. Small steep-sided banks or knolls, covered with luxuriantly- growing coral, rise from the interior expanse to the same level with the external rim, which, as we have seen, is formed only of dead rock. It is impossible to look at the plan (fig. 1, Plate II.), although reduced to so small a scale, without at once perceiving that the Great Chagos Bank is, in the words of Cap

Author: Peter F. Sale
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: reefs, coral, fishes, ecology
Number of Pages: 754
Published: 1993-08-20
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0126151814
ISBN-13: 9780126151817

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in particular. Many of the methodologies that reef fish ecologists use in their studies will be useful to a wider audience of ecologists for the design of their ecological studies. Significant among the impacts of the research on reef fish ecology are the development of nonequilibrium models of community o