Author | : André Freiwald |
File Size | : 48,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 17 January 2006 |
ISBN | : 9783540276739 |
Pages | : 1242 pages |
Cold Water Corals and Ecosystems by André Freiwald Book PDF Summary
Cold-water coral ecosystems figure the formation of large seabed structures such as reefs and giant carbonate mounds; they represent unexplored paleo-environmental archives of earth history. Like their tropical cousins, cold-water coral ecosystems harbour rich species diversity. For this volume, key institutions in cold-water coral research have contributed 62 state-of-the-art articles on topics from geology and oceanography to biology and conservation, with some impressive underwater images.