Author : André Freiwald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540276734
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.