Editors:
- This engaging book synthesizes the current state of knowledge on a globally significant ecosystem
- It is of great assistance to research workers, resource managers, policymakers and all those interested in the marine ecosystem, coastal ecology or global and geological processes
- This book provides the first comprehensive compilation of what is known about these unique marine ecosystems combines knowledge from biology, physiology, geology, taxonomy, and phylogeny, in an interdisciplinary approach discusses how global warming or acidification of the ocean might influence the future distribution of rhodolith and maerl beds
- It includes the discussion how global warming or acidification of the ocean might influence the future distribution of Rhodolith/maerl beds
Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 15)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Role of Rhodolith/Maërl Beds in Modern Oceans
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The Role of Rhodolith/Maërl Beds in Historical Oceans
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Conservation Status of Rhodolith/Maërl at Major Ocean Basins
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“The reader will find some relevant information about Magnesium, Strontium, Barium, Lithium, Uranium … .This book is warmly recommended to all persons working with recent and fossils coralline algae, for biologists, palaeontologists as well as for sedimentologists.” (Thomas Hofmann, Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Vol. 158 (1 - 4), December, 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad de Baja California Sur, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez
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School of Biological Sciences University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Wendy Nelson
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Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Julio Aguirre
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rhodolith/Maërl Beds: A Global Perspective
Editors: Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez, Wendy Nelson, Julio Aguirre
Series Title: Coastal Research Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29315-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29313-4Published: 21 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80539-9Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29315-8Published: 07 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-0577
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 368
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Geomorphology, Biogeosciences, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Freshwater & Marine Ecology