Coral Reefs at the Crossroads

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hubbard, Dennis K. (Editor), Rogers, Caroline S. (Editor), Lipps, Jere H. (Editor), Stanley, Jr., George D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Coral Reefs of the World, 6
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Systems biology.; Conservation biology.; Ecology.; Environmental management.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Systems Biology.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Environmental Management.

In this book, contributors from diverse backgrounds take a first step toward an integrated view of reefs and the significance of their recent decline. More than any other earth system, coral reefs sit at a disciplinary crossroads. Most recently, they have reached another crossroads - fundamental cha...