Coral Health and DiseaseCoral reefs are the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems in the marine environment. Over the last decades, however, dramatic declines of coral reef communities have been observed. Corals are endangered due to natural and anthropogenic detrimental factors, such as global warming and environmental pollution. Based on an international meeting on "Coral Health and Disease" in Eilat, Israel in April 2003, the book starts with case studies of reefs, e.g. the Red Sea, Caribbean, Japan, Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. The second part on microbial ecology and physiology describes the symbiotic relations of corals and microbes, and the microbial role in nutrition or bleaching resistance of corals. Particular coral diseases such as aspergillosis, white pox, black and white band diseases are treated in the third part. Finally, various hypotheses of the mechanisms of coral bleaching, including a projection of the future of coral reefs, are discussed. |
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Results 1-5 of 82
... Response in Porites : A symptom with a variety of causes ?. 3.2.8 Coral Tumours ................ 3.3 Coral Disease Surveys on the Great Barrier Reef . 3.3.1 Survey Protocols .... 3.3.2 Results of Large - Scale AIMS LTMP Surveys . 3.3.3 ...
... Responses ... 5.3.2 Species - Specific Responses Discussion ........ Unresolved Questions and Future Research ..... References ...... 6 Coral Bleaching in a Temperate Sea : ...... 114 117 .119 .... 119 .120 .122 ... 122 ...... 122 .123 ...
... Response ................ .187 8.4.5 Symbiont Diversity and Bacterial Bleaching ................. 8.5 Understanding the Past History and Future Fate of Coral Reefs ...... 189 8.6 Research Priorities ......... .189 References ...
... BOAZ LAZAR , and JONATHAN EREZ 21.1 Introduction ..... ..... 367 21.2 Coral Reef Metabolism .... 367 21.3 The Response of Coral Reefs to Eutrophication .... 369 21.4 Case Studies in the Red Sea System 21.5 Open XIV Contents.
... Response ...... ...... 379 22.2.3 Coral Immune System .................. 380 22.3 Gorgonians : the Sea Fan as a Model System ..... 386 22.3.1 Generalized Antifungal Activity ..... .... 388 22.3.2 Chitinase ............ 389 22.3.3 ...
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