Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs: Structure, Form and Process

Herausgeber: Hopley, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from an earth science perspective, concentrating especially on modern reefs. Currently coral reefs are under high stress, most prominently from climate change with changes to water temperature, sea level and ocean acidification particularly damaging. Modern reefs have evolved through the massive environmental changes of the Quaternary with long periods of exposure during glacially lowered sea level periods and short periods of interglacial growth. The entries in this encyclopedia condense the large amount of work carried out since Charles Darwin first attempted to understand reef evolution. Leading authorities from many countries have contributed to the entries covering areas of geology, geography and ecology, providing comprehensive access to the most up-to-date research on the structure, form and processes operating on Quaternary coral reefs.

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Produktdetails

• Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
• Verlag: Springer London / Springer Netherland
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 12663415
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 1205
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm
• ISBN-13: 9789048126408
• ISBN-10: 9048126401
• Artikelnr.: 27983764

Autorenporträt

David Hopley is Professor Emeritus in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, where he has worked since 1965. He has an M.A. from the University of Manchester and PhD. from James Cook University. His initial research into Holocene sea levels and tropical landforms quickly focused on the evolution of coral reefs, reflecting the importance of the Great Barrier Reef to his home institution. Experience with coral reefs extends to many parts of the world including Australia, Barbados, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, Rodrigues and Thailand. He has authored and edited almost 200 scientific publications. Amongst numerous awards have been the J.P. Thomson silver medal from the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (1984) and Life Membership of PACON International (1992), and the J.P. Thomson Silver Medal by the Duke of Kent on 15 April 2014 for his 50 years of science research to Higher Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Acanthaster planci.
Accommodation space.
Acropora.
Adaptation.
Aerial photography of coral reefs.
Agassiz, Alexander (1835
1910).
Airborne dust impacts.
Algae
blue green boring.
Algae
coralline.
Algae
macro.
Algae, turf.
Algal rims.
Antecedent platforms.
Aragonite.
Atoll islands
 Atolls.
AUVs (ROVs).
Back
stepping.
Bafflestone.
Bahamas.
Banks Island: Frasnian (Late Devonian) reefs in arctic Canada.
Banks, Joseph.
Barbados.
Barrier reef (ribbon reef).
Bassett edges.
Beach rock.
Belize barrier and atoll reefs.
Bermuda.
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Binding organisms.
Bindstone.
Bioerosion.
Bioherms and Biostromes.
Bioturbation.
Blowholes.
Blue Hole.
Boat channel.
Boulder beaches.
Boulder zone/ramparts.
Brazil, Coral Reefs.
Bryozoa.
Calcite.
Calcrete/caliche.
Carbon fluxes of coral reefs.
Carbonate budgets and reef framework accumulation.
Carboniferous reefs.
Caribbean coral reefs, Southeastern.
Cay formation.
Chamisso, Albert Von (1781
1838).
Classification of carbonates.
Climate change
impact of sea level rise on reef flat zonation and productivity.
Climate change
increasing storm activity.
Climate change and coral reefs.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Cold water coral reefs.
Conglomerates.
Cook, James (1728
1779).
Coral cay classification and evolution.
Coral cays
geohydrology.
Coral cays
vegetational succession.
Coral reef
definition.
Coral reefs of India.
Reefs and the biology of coral skeleton formation.
Corals
environmental controls on growth.
Core plugs.
Daly, Reginald Aldworth (1871
1957).
Dana, James Dwight (1813
1895).
Darwin Point.
Darwin, Charles (1809
1882).
David, Tannant Edgeworth (1858
1934).
Davis, William Morris (1850
1935).
Density and porosity
influence on reef accretion rates.
Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin.
Diagenesis.
Dolomotization.
Double and triple reef fronts.
Drilling.
Earthquakes and emergence or submergence of coral reefs.
East Indies Triangle of biodiversity.
Eastern Indian Ocean
Northern Sector.
Eastern tropical coral Pacific reefs.
Echinodermata.
Eco
morphodynamics.
Ecomorphology.
El Niño/La Nina and ENSO.
Electro mineral accretion.
Electron spin resonance dating (ESR).
Emerged reefs.
Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Engineering and coral reefs with emphasis on Pacific reefs.
Eolianite.
Faroes reefs.
Floatstone.
Florida Keys.
FORAM Index.
Foraminifera.
Fore reef/reef front.
Fossil coralline algae.
Framestone.
Fringing reef circulation.
Fringing reefs.
Funafuti Atoll.
Gardiner, John Stanley (1872
1946).
General evolution of carbonate reefs.
Glacial control hypothesis.
Glacio
hydro isostasy.
Global ocean circulation and coral reefs.
Great Barrier Reef.
Great Barrier Reef Committee.
Halimeda.
Halimeda bioherms.
Hawaiian Emperor Volcanic Chain and coral reef history.
Heavy metal accumulation in Scleractinian corals.
Historical ecology of coral reefs.
Holocene high energy window.
Holocene reefs thickness and characteristics.
Huon Peninsula, P.N.G..
Hydrodynamics of coral reefs systems.
Impacts of sediment on coral reefs.
Climate change
Impact on coral reef coasts.
Indian Ocean reefs.
Indonesian reefs.
Infrastructure and reef islands.
Internal circulation.
Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers on coral reefs.
Lagoon circulation.
Lagoons.
Last glacial interstadials.
Last glacial low stand and shelf exposure.
Last Interglacial and reef development.
Low wooded Islands.
Lyell, Charles (1797
1875).
MacNeil, Francis Stearns (1909
1983).
Makatea.
Maldives.
Mangrove Islands.
Mangroves.
Mariana Islands, Coral reef geology.
Mass extinctions, anoxic events and ocean acidification.
Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough (1868
1922).
Megablocks.
Melwater pulses.
Micrite.
Microatoll.
Microbes.
Mid Holocene.
Midway Atoll [Hawaiian Archipelago].
Mining/quarrying of coral reefs.
Moating.
Moats.
Molluscs.
Mururoa Atoll.
New Caledonia.
Notch and visor.
Nutrient pollution/eutrophication.
Ocean acidification
effects on calcification.
Oceanic hotspots.
Octocorallia.
Oil and gas reservoirs and coral reefs.
Ooids.
Pacific coral reefs: an introduction.
Packstone.
Palaeoclimate from corals.
Palaeosols.
Patch reefs: lidar morphometric analysis .
Permian Capitan reef system.
Persian/Arabian Gulf, coral reefs.
Peysonnel, Jean
Andre (1694
1759).
Phosphatic cay sandstone.
Plate tectonics.
Platforms (cemented).
Poleward extension of reefs.
Porites.
Porosity variability in limestone sequences.
Postglacial transgression.
Quoy, Jean Rene (1790
1869) and Gaimard, Joseph Paul (1796
1858).
Radiocarbon (14C): dating and corals.
recent sea level trends.
Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba.
Reef balls.
Reef classification
Fairbridge (1950).
Reef classification
Hopley (1982).
Reef classification
Maxwell (1968).
Reef classification
response to sea level rise.
Reef conservation and marine protected areas.
Reef flats.
Reefal sediments.
Reef front wave energy.
Reef interconnectivity/larval dispersal.
Reef restoration.
Reef structure.
Reef topographic complexity.
Reef typology.
Reefal microbial crusts.
Reefs at risk: map
based analyses of threats to coral reefs.
Remote sensing.
Residence time.
Reticulated reefs.
Rhodoliths.
River plumes and coral reefs.
Royal Society of London.
Rudstone.
Ryukyu Islands.
Scleractinia, evolution and taxonomy.
Sclerochronology.
Sea level changes and effects on reef growth.
Sea level indicators.
Seagrasses.
Sediment durability.
Sediment dynamics.
Sediments, properties.
Seismic reflection imaging of coral reefs.
Seismic refraction.
Shingle ridges.
Soils of low elevation coral structures.
Solution processes/reef erosion.
Solution unconformities.
Spiculite.
Sponges.
Spurs and grooves.
Stable isotopes and trace elements.
Steers, James Alfred (1899
1987).
Stoddart, David Rodd (1937).
Stromatolites.
Submarine groundwater discharge.
Submarine lithification.
Submerged reefs.
Subsidence hypothesis of reef development.
Swathe mapping.
Symbiosis.
Tahiti/Society Islands.
Taphonomy.
Temperature change
bleaching.
Tethys Ocean.
Tidal effects on coral reefs.
Tidal jets.
Tropical cyclone/hurricane.
Tsunami.
Turbid
zone and terrigenous sediment
influenced reefs.
Underwater landscape mosaics.
Unvegetated cays.
Upwelling and coral reefs.
Uranium series dating.
Vanuatu.
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland (1870
1952).
Vegetated cays.
Volcanic disturbances and coral reefs.
Volcanic loading and isostasy.
Wackestone.
Walther, Johannes (1860
1937).
Wave
set up.
Wave shoaling and refraction.
Waves and wave
driven currents.
West Indian coral reef classification.
Western Atlantic/ Caribbean, coral reefs.
Western Australian reefs.
Western Indian Ocean.
Yonge, Sir Maurice (1899
1986).
Zooxanthellae.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"Another addition to Springer's range of mammoth tomes addressing important fields across the sciences, this covers the geology, biotic composition and physical geography of coral reefs around the world though 260 fully referenced entries. ... Presented largely from the perspective of earth sciences, this will ... prove to be a valuable reference for biogeographers working in these systems." -- Frontiers of Biogeography, Vol. 5 (3), 2013)

"The Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs is one of those exceptional scholarly works that is bound to make a lasting impression on the existing literature. ... researchers from other relevant disciplines would undoubtedly find it of use. ... This is a remarkable addition to the literature on coral reefs ... . a sound investment for libraries which cater for students and researchers of marine science and other related disciplines." -- Anna Franca, Reference Reviews, Vol. 25 (8), 2011)

Endorsements:

My feeling is that this single book is the best compilation on coral reefs ever written, and it will be many years, if ever, before another book like this is published. I for one appreciate having my best references both in book and electronic form, and I appreciate the efforts of Springer to continue to produce important publications in book format. Jim Maragos

The book is truly outstanding! What a magnificent and well-assembled compilation of what clearly represent the best up-to-date summaries of significant, decades-scale bodies of work on global coral reefs, on old and new technologies employed, and on the early grandfathers of reef research. I fully expect that the volume will quickly fit well into the realm of classic literature on reefs, past and present. Barbara Lidz