Author: Richard WinterbottomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Revised Checklist of the Epipelagic and Shore Fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author: Richard WinterbottomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Chagos Archipelago
Author: Charles SheppardPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040016944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book is the story of the natural history of Chagos Archipelago, and of the efforts of many to get it recognized as an important and protected wildlife reserve. Exploring its immense natural riches and biodiversity, both on islands and in the marine environment, this book addresses competing claims to its resources, its politics, and the desire of some commercial and political parties to exploit the area. It is about the fight to conserve a wonderland of biodiversity and obtain its protection from exploitation, especially of its reefs and other marine life. This book shows the importance of the Chagos Archipelago and why so much research was done there. Rather than being a typical research book, this work presents research in a narrative form and describes the now substantial Government, UN, and legal interest in the archipelago since the UK was told to ‘decolonise’ it. It is also the story of our planet in miniature: the archipelago encapsulates much of the world’s conservation tribulations in a way we can much more easily understand. This narrative will explore the difficulties faced by the Chagos Archipelago, including displaced people, old and derelict industries (coconut in this case), the military, politics, rich and untouched ecosystems that some want to exploit, ruined habitats on land, climate change, and territorial claims. It will examine how all of these factors have affected the natural history, biodiversity, and conservation of the archipelago. With beautiful photography of the Chagos Archipelago coral reefs and islands, as well as graphs indicating their findings, this book offers professionals, researchers, academics, and students in conservation and biodiversity an insight into one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. It is also accessible for non‐academic readers with an interest in climate change, biodiversity, and the importance of conservation.
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems
Author: Yossi LoyaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319927353
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1003
Book Description
This book summarizes what is known about mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) geographically and by major taxa. MCEs are characterized by light-dependent corals and associated communities typically found at depths ranging from 30-40 m. and extending to over 150 m. in tropical and subtropical ecosystems. They are populated with organisms typically associated with shallow coral reefs, such as macroalgae, corals, sponges, and fishes, as well as specialist species unique to mesophotic depths. During the past decade, there has been an increasing scientific and management interest in MCEs expressed by the exponential increase in the number of publications studying this unique environment. Despite their close proximity to well-studied shallow reefs, and the growing evidence of their importance, our scientific knowledge of MCEs is still in its early stages. The topics covered in the book include: regional variation in MCEs; similarities and differences between mesophotic and shallow reef taxa, biotic and abiotic conditions, biodiversity, ecology, geomorphology, and geology; potential connectivity between MCEs and shallow reefs; MCE disturbances, conservation, and management challenges; and new technologies, key research questions/knowledge gaps, priorities, and future directions in MCE research.
Atlas of the Maldives
Author: Timothy J. GodfreyPublisher: Atoll Editions
ISBN: 1876410035
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Fully revised and updated with detailed maps of all atolls and features including dive sites, surfing sites, mangroves, turtle and bird nesting islands, protected marine areas and a complete island index with a new grid referencing system. Includes a history of early mapping and information on atoll structure and formation, based on the latest science. This book has stunning color photos of islands and useful information for travelling in the atolls. Blurb: This 6th edition of Atlas of the Maldives has been fully revised and updated to reflect the many changes occurring on both land and at sea since the last edition in 2007. It includes new material on the early mapping of the Maldives and its impact on science. The writings of Moresby, Darwin and other recent researchers, are used to explain the formation, structure and geological history of the Maldives. • Detailed Atoll Maps • Islands & Features • History & Shipwrecks • Diving & Surfing • Wetlands & Lakes • Protected Marine Areas • Marine LIfe • Turtles & Birds "The first view of these Islands from seaward, is imposing, and impresses a stranger with a favorable idea of them. Imagine a beautiful verdant fringe, of a mile or so in extent emerging suddenly from the sea on the distant horizon." Mr ‘Prentice’ Boyce, Purser aboard Captain Robert Moresby’s survey ship Benares, 1836.
Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago
Author: Bruce C. MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
An Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author: Richard WinterbottomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A two-and-a-half month collection expedition to the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, plus two other smaller collections made in 1980 and 1985, yielded specimens of 585 species of fishes, with an additional 16 species seen but not collected. A further 100 species are recorded from literature,and 2 additional species from Chagos were discovered in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History).
A Review of the Cardinalfishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) of the Red Sea
Author: Ofer GonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apogon
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Author: Revision of the Goatfish Genus Parupeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species
Author: John E. RandallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mullidae
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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