Perspectives on the Marine Animal Forests of the World
Marine Animal Forests (MAFs) are spread all over the world. Composed by suspension feeding organisms (e.g. corals, gorgonians, sponges, bryozoans, bivalves, etc.), MAFs constitute a vast number of marine ecosystems such as coral reefs, cold water corals, sponge grounds, bivalve beds, etc. The surfac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Coral Tree at the End of the World: Introductory Notes to Coralline Mythology and Folklore from the Indian and Pacific oceans
- The Marine Animal Forests Of South Africa: Importance For Bioregionalisation And Marine Spatial Planning
- Coral and reef fish communities in the thermally extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into potential climate change effects
- Marginal reefs in the Anthropocene: they are not Noah’s Ark
- Animal Forests in Submarine Caves
- The Tubeworm Forests of Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps
- Bryozoans: the ‘forgotten’ bioconstructors
- Polychaetes as habitat former: structure and function
- Chemical war in marine animal forests: Natural products and chemical interactions
- The nursery role of marine animal forests
- From Trees To Octocorals: The Role Of Self-Thinning And Shading In Underwater Animal Forests
- Marine animal forests as Carbon immobilizers or why we should preserve these three-dimensional alive structures
- Invasive alien species and their effects on marine animal forests
- Plastics, an additional threat for coral ecosystems
- Visual methods for monitoring mesophotic-to-deep reefs and animal forests: finding a compromise between analytical effort and result quality
- Advances in the Marine Animal Forests Scientific Outreach and Citizen Science