The Reef
Author | : Edith Wharton |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Edith Wharton |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Julian Sprung |
Publisher | : Ricordea Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Pets |
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Author | : Jason Chin |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1596435631 |
A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
Author | : David Dobbs |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-02-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0307490076 |
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and its natural wonders.
Author | : Ben Daley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 113593441X |
The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.
Author | : James Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781139440646 |
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Marine biology |
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Author | : Jonathan M. Hoekstra |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520262565 |
The Atlas of Global Conservation is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Top scientists at The Nature Conservancy have joined forces to create this guide to the state of the planet today. With over 80 full-color maps and other graphics contextualized with clear, informative discussion, this book offers an unprecedented view of trends across the world's terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments. Interspersed throughout, essays by noted international authorities point the way forward in confronting some of our greatest conservation challenges.--Publisher information.