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Cold-Water Corals : The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
ISBN: 9780521884853 | 0521884853
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 5/25/2009
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This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral worldwide. Covering ecology, biology, palaeontology and geology, the text is enhanced by an extensive glossary, online resources, and a unique collection of colour photographs and illustrations of corals and the habitats they form.
There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of col... MORE
There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of col... MORE
| List of topic boxes and case studies | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
| History and research approaches | p. 1 |
| History | p. 1 |
| Research approaches | p. 9 |
| Cold-water corals | p. 20 |
| Ecological categorisation of corals | p. 20 |
| The five cold-water coral taxa | p. 24 |
| Environmental controls on cold-water coral distribu... MORE | p. 43 |
| Global patterns of cold-water scleractinian diversity | p. 51 |
| Molecular phylogeny of cold-water corals | p. 52 |
| Linkages and connectivity | p. 58 |
| Biology | p. 67 |
| Anatomy | p. 68 |
| Morphology | p. 72 |
| Food supply and nutrition | p. 73 |
| Growth rates | p. 83 |
| Ecophysiology | p. 94 |
| Reproduction | p. 100 |
| Larval biology and dispersal | p. 104 |
| Reefs and mounds | p. 108 |
| Reef initiation and development | p. 109 |
| Reef sedimentation | p. 112 |
| Defining coral carbonate mounds | p. 115 |
| Mound development | p. 119 |
| Coral carbonate mound morphology | p. 135 |
| Global distribution of coral carbonate mounds | p. 139 |
| Habitats and ecology | p. 142 |
| Habitats | p. 144 |
| Biodiversity | p. 151 |
| Seamounts, endemism and refugia | p. 158 |
| Species interactions | p. 160 |
| Fish assemblages | p. 163 |
| Predictive mapping | p. 168 |
| Palaeontology | p. 175 |
| Triassic dawn | p. 175 |
| Fossil record of cold-water corals | p. 180 |
| Taphonomy | p. 193 |
| Preservation of the coral-associated fauna | p. 198 |
| Corals as archives | p. 210 |
| Biomineralisation | p. 211 |
| Temperature records | p. 225 |
| Water-mass history | p. 230 |
| Pollution and nutrient records | p. 233 |
| Impacts and conservation | p. 237 |
| Impacts | p. 237 |
| Conservation | p. 254 |
| Glossary | p. 263 |
| References | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 324 |
| Colour plate section is between pages 144 and 145. | |
| Online appendix www.lophelia.org/coldwatercoralsbook. | |
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