What is natural? : coral reef crisis / Jan Sapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sapp, Jan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crown-of-thorns starfish.

Coral reef ecology.

Coral reef ecology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the late 1960's and 1970's, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled. The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for answers to the...

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Green Island; 2 Guam, 1968-1969; 3 The War of the Worlds; 4 Under Capricorn; 5 Crown-of-thorns Inquisition; 6 A Tree Fell in the Forest . . .; 7 Knowledge and Action; 8 Oceans Apart; 9 Remote Control; 10 Complexity and Stability; 11 Cyclical Outcries; 12 Crossroads; 13 Coral Bleaching and Global Warming; 14 Cassandra and the Seastar; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-265) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770242-2

1-280-47152-2

9786610471522

1-4237-3673-7

0-19-535250-5

1-60256-313-6

OCLC:

475956619