Overview
- With over 50 beautiful color photos of corals and their environments
- Including a review of three decades studies of coral community structures in the Red Sea
- Also of interest for amateur divers and environmental protectors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regional Aspects of Coral Reef Health and Disease
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Microbial Ecology and Physiology of Corals
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Coral Diseases
Keywords
About this book
Coral reefs are the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems in the marine environment. Over the last decades, however, dramatic declines of coral reef communities have been observed. Corals are endangered due to natural and anthropogenic detrimental factors, such as global warming and environmental pollution.
Based on an international meeting on "Coral Health and Disease" in Eilat, Israel in April 2003, the book starts with case studies of reefs, e.g. the Red Sea, Caribbean, Japan, Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. The second part on microbial ecology and physiology describes the symbiotic relations of corals and microbes, and the microbial role in nutrition or bleaching resistance of corals. Particular coral diseases such as aspergillosis, white pox, black and white band diseases are treated in the third part. Finally, various hypotheses of the mechanisms of coral bleaching, including a projection of the future of coral reefs, are discussed.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coral Health and Disease
Editors: Eugene Rosenberg, Yossi Loya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06414-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20772-6Published: 27 April 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05863-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-06414-6Published: 14 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 488
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Animal Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Nature Conservation