Overview
- First book on the subject
- Compiles the latest reserach results
- Written by a number of specialists in the field
- Complete overview over the subject
- Contains 65 peer-reviewed articles
- Includes a couple of impressive underwater images from the deep-water coral ecosystem
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Erlangen Earth Conference Series (ERLANGEN)
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Table of contents (62 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The paleoenvironmental context
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Distribution
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About this book
Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with high-technology instrumentation is currently another hot topic in multidisciplinary marine research. Conventionally, coral reefs are regarded as restricted to warm and well-illuminated tropical seas, not associated with cold and dark waters of higher latitudes. However, ongoing scientific missions have shed light on the global significance of this overlooked ecosystem. Cold-water coral ecosystems are involved in the formation of large seabed structures such as reefs and giant carbonate mounds, and they represent unexploited paleo-environmental archives of earth history. Like their tropical cousins, cold-water coral ecosystems harbour rich species diversity. Despite the great water depths, commercial interests overlap more and more with the coral occurrences. Human activities already impinge directly on cold-water coral reefs causing severe damage to this vulnerable ecosystem. In this volume, the current key institutions involved in cold-water coral research have contributed 62 state-of-the-art articles from geology and oceanography to biology and conservation.
Reviews
From the reviews of the first edition:
"This thick volume results from the Second International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, held in Erlangen in September, 2003, and is a fine summary of our current state of knowledge. … presents a rich archive of data for these fascinating and important ecosystems. The collation of this volume was a substantial undertaking … is well edited, and produced to high standards with the inclusion of many colour photos … . the volume should certainly be placed on every reef enthusiast’s bookshelf." (Rachael Wood, Geological Magazine, Vol. 143, 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
Editors: André Freiwald, J. Murray Roberts
Series Title: Erlangen Earth Conference Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27673-9Published: 17 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 1243
Number of Illustrations: 245 b/w illustrations, 116 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Biogeosciences, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Ecosystems