This book discusses new techniques for greatly increasing the recruitment, growth, survival, and resistance to stress of marine ecosystems, fisheries, and eroding shorelines, maintaining biodiversity and productivity where it would be lost. The book provides experimental proof t…
For those who depend on the bounty of the sea for their livelihoods, climate change and its consequences (warming water, coral bleaching, rising sea levels) could spell disaster. The region comprising the eastern coastline of Africa and the islands of the western Indian Ocean i…
This volume analyses the environmental treaty regimes which are designed to conserve coral reef ecosystems. It looks at the subject from a number perspectives such as coverage of these ecosystems, internal promotion of conservation, national implementation, and discusses the wid…
Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs presents the current state of knowledge of the ecology of important elements of southern Australian sub-tidal reef flora and fauna, and the underlying ecological principles. Preliminary chapters describe the geological origin, oceanography a…
Places key concepts and issues from a diverse range of marine systems in a real world context. A modern perspective emphasizes those factors impacting upon the marine environment that are of global importance and concern to marine ecologists today. Online Resource Centre feature…
From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. In the 1920…