Coral Reef Science - Strategy for Ecosystem Symbiosis and Coexistence with Humans under Multiple Stresses

This book aims to illuminate coral reefs which comprise a symbiotic system coexisting among ecosystems, landforms, and humans at various levels and to provide a scientific basis for its reconstruction. The authors conducted an interdisciplinary project called "Coral Reef Science" from 2008 to 2012 and obtained novel results and clues to unite different disciplines for a coral reef as a key ecosystem.

List of contents

Life History and Stress Response of Scleractinian Corals.- Chemical-Biological Characteristics of Coral Reef Ecosystem at Micro/Nano Scale: Effect of Multiple and Synergistic Stresses.- Coupling Remote Sensing and Coral Annual Band Data to Investigate the History of Catchment Land Use and Coral Reef Status.- A Review of Coral Studies of the Ryukyu Island Arc to Reconstruct its Long-term Landscape History.- Producing Plaster: Traditional Uses and Knowledge of Coral on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa.- Possible Articulations Between the Practices of Local Inhabitants and Academic Outcomes of Landscape History: Ecotourism on Ishigaki Island.- Response of Coral Reefs to Global Warming.- Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen as a regional-scale eutrophication stress on the coral reef ecosystem.

Summary

This book aims to illuminate coral reefs which comprise a symbiotic system coexisting among ecosystems, landforms, and humans at various levels and to provide a scientific basis for its reconstruction. The authors conducted an interdisciplinary project called “Coral Reef Science” from 2008 to 2012 and obtained novel results and clues to unite different disciplines for a coral reef as a key ecosystem.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hajim Kayanne (Editor), Hajime Kayanne (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2013
• EAN: 9784431543633
• ISBN: 978-4-431-54363-3
• No. of pages: 101
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 8 mm x 286 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Illustrations: IX, 101 p. 50 illus., 32 illus. in color.
• Series: Coral Reefs of the World; Coral Reefs of the World
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; B, Water, Earth and Environmental Science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Ecosystems, Environmental Sciences, Geoecology, Environmental geology, Freshwater, Limnology (inland waters), Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Marine sciences, Environmental Monitoring, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis