Coral health and disease / Eugene Rosenberg, Yossi Loya, (eds.).

Other author Rosenberg, Eugene.
Other author Loya, Yossi.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Descriptionxxi, 488 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map ; 24 cm
Subjects
Coral reef ecology--Congresses.
Corals--Diseases. --Congresses.

Contents The coral reefs of Eilat - past, present and future : three decades of coral community structure studies / Yossi Loya -- Coral reef diseases in the wider Caribbean / Ernesto Weil -- Coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef / Bette L. Willis, Cathie A. Page and Elizabeth A. Dinsdale -- Coral diseases in Gulf of México reefs / Eric Jordán-Dahlgren and Rosa. E. Rodríguez-Martínez -- Coral bleaching : signs of change in southern Japan / Robert van Woesik, Akiyuki Irikawa and Yossi Loya -- Coral bleaching in a temperate sea : from colony physiology to population ecology / Maoz Fine and Yossi Loya -- Coral bleaching, diseases and mortality in the western Indian Ocean / Tim McClanahan -- Symbiont diversity on coral reefs and its relation to bleaching resistance and resilience / Andrew C. Baker -- Stress effects on metabolism and photosynthesis of hermatypic corals / Noga Stambler and Zvy Dubinsky -- What can regeneration processes tell us about coral disease? / Esti Kramarsky-Winter -- Bacteria as a source of coral nutrition / Ariel Kushmaro and Esti Kramarsky-Winter -- Antimicrobial activity of sponges and corals / Dovi Kelman -- Microbial communities of coral surface mucopolysaccharide layers / Kim B. Ritchie and Garriet W. Smith -- Culture-independent analyses of coral-associated microbes / Forest Rohwer and Scott Kelley -- Aspergillosis of gorgonians / Garriet W. Smith and Ernesto Weil -- White pox disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata / Kathryn Patterson Sutherland and Kim B. Ritchie -- Temperature-regulated bleaching and tissue lysis of Pocillopora damicornis by the novel pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus / Yael Ben-Haim Rozenblat and Eugene Rosenberg -- Black band disease / Laurie L. Richardson --
Contents Dark spots disease and yellow band disease, two poorly known coral diseases with high incidence in Caribbean reefs / Diego L. Gil-Agudelo ... [et al.] -- White plague, white band, and other "white" diseases / John Bythell, Olga Pantos and Laurie Richardson -- Monitoring the health of coral reef ecosystems using community metabolism / Jack Silverman, Boaz Lazar and Jonathan Erez -- Coral resistance to disease / Kerri M. Mullen, Esther C. Peters and C. Drew Harvell -- Temperature stress and coral bleaching / Paul L. Jokiel -- The adaptive hypothesis of bleaching / Robert W. Buddemeier ... [et al.] -- The bacterial disease hypothesis of coral bleaching / Eugene Rosenberg -- Coral reefs and projections of future change / Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.
General notePapers derived from an international meeting held in Eilat, Israel, April 2003.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004040663
ISBN3540207724 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QH541.5.C7 C56 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold