Cold-water corals : the biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats / J. Murray Roberts... [and 3 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, J. Murray, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deep sea corals.

Coral reefs and islands.

Physical Description:

xvi, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. History and research approaches

1.1. History

1.2. Research approaches

2. Cold-water corals

2.1. Ecological categorisation of corals

2.2. The five cold-water coral taxa

2.3. Environmental controls on cold-water coral distribution

2.4. Global patterns of cold-water scleractinian diversity

2.5. Molecular phylogeny of cold-water corals

2.6. Linkages and connectivity

3. Biology

3.1. Anatomy

3.2. Morphology

3.3. Food supply and nutrition

3.4. Growth rates

3.5. Ecophysiology

3.6. Reproduction

3.7. Larval biology and dispersal

4. Reefs and mounds

4.1. Reef initiation and development

4.2. Reef sedimentation

4.3. Denning coral carbonate mounds

4.4. Mound development

4.5. Coral carbonate mound morphology

4.6. Global distribution of coral carbonate mounds

5. Habitats and ecology

5.1. Habitats

5.2. Biodiversity

5.3. Seamounts, endemism and refugia

5.4. Species interactions

5.5. Fish assemblages

5.6. Predictive mapping

6. Palaeontology

6.1. Triassic dawn

6.2. Fossil record of cold-water corals

6.3. Taphonomy

6.4. Preservation of the coral-associated fauna

7. Corals as archives

7.1. Biomineralisation

7.2. Temperature records

7.3. Water-mass history

7.4. Pollution and nutrient records

8. Impacts and conservation

8.1. Impacts

8.2. Conservation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781009263931

1009263935

OCLC:

1303560217

Publisher Number:

99991258914