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| Abbreviations | |
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| List of Boxes | |
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| Coral Reefs - Biodiverse and Productive Tropical Ecosystems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Areas and distributions of reefs | |
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| Biodiversity on coral reefs | |
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| Coral communities and reef growth | |
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| Types of reefs | |
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| Profiles and zones of reefs | |
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| Biodiversity on reef slopes | |
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| Values of reefs to people | |
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| The Main Reef Builders and Space Occupiers | |
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| Corals | |
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| Soft corals and sea fans | |
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| Sponges | |
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| Other animal species | |
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| Macroalgae | |
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| Seagrasses and mangroves | |
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| Rates of coral growth, rates of reef growth | |
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| Soft substrates | |
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| The Abiotic Environment | |
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| Controls on coral distribution | |
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| Salinity | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Light | |
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| Nutrients | |
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| Exposure and other hydrodynamic factors | |
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| Sediment | |
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| Seawater carbonate chemistry | |
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| Symbiotic Interactions | |
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| What is symbiosis? | |
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| Algal-invertebrate symbioses in corals and soft corals | |
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| Diversity of zooxanthellae | |
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| Physiology of coral calcification | |
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| Photosynthesis and carbon fluxes | |
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| Nitrogen acquisition and fluxes | |
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| Phosphorus | |
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| Symbiosis establishment and stability | |
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| Coral-microbial associations | |
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| Sponge symbioses with non-photosynthetic bacteria, cyanobacteria, and algae | |
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| 'Macro' or iconic symbioses e.g. fish and sea anemones, shrimps, and fish | |
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| Microbial, Microalgal, and Planktonic Reef Life | |
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| Microbial reef life | |
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| Trophic links | |
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| Zooplankton behaviour and ecology | |
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| Reef Fishes: Diversity, Feeding, and Food Chains | |
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| Geographical influences on diversity | |
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| Reef fish: colourful for a reason | |
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| Trophic ecology of coral reef fish | |
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| The coral reef food chain | |
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| Impacts on the food chain | |
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| Reef Fisheries and Reef Aquaculture | |
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| Fisheries resources on reefs | |
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| Practical issues with reef fishes | |
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| Live reef fish trade | |
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| Aquaculture on reefs | |
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| Impacts of fishing | |
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| Approaches to managing coral reef fisheries | |
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| Controlling coral reef fisheries | |
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| Future for reef fisheries | |
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| Coral Reefs in the Modern World | |
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| Damaging impacts on reefs | |
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| Other physical impacts | |
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| Coral diseases | |
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| Diseases of other reef organisms | |
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| Climate change | |
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| Acidification | |
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| Sea level rise | |
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| Cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons | |
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| Synergies, stasis, and feedbacks | |
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| Consequences to Reefs of Changing Environmental Stress | |
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| Ecological consequences of environmental impacts | |
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| Changes to the main architectural species | |
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| Changes on Indo-Pacific reefs | |
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| Sizes of the coral 'reservoir' | |
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| Changing food chains and trophic balances | |
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| The Future, Human Population, and Management | |
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| The time scale available | |
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| The elephant in the room | |
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| Protected areas and coral reefs | |
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| Environmental assessments | |
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| Costs, prices, and values | |
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| The 'slippery slope to slime' | |
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| The future for reefs | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |