Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems

Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
ISBN-10
3540241361
ISBN-13
9783540241362
Category
Science
Pages
1298
Language
English
Published
2005-05-20
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
André Freiwald

Description

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.

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