The ecology and etiology of newly emerging marine diseases /

Coral reef ecology.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Porter, James W. (James Watson), 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2001]
Series:Developments in hydrobiology ; 159.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Patterns of spread of coral disease in the Florida Keys
  • White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs
  • Quantitative assessment of coral diseases in the Florida Keys: strategy and methodology
  • Yellow band and dark spots syndromes in Caribbean corals: distribution, rate of spread, cytology, and effects on abundance and division rate of zooxanthellae
  • Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs
  • Integrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques in the study of coral disease pathogenesis
  • Laboratory models for the study of coral pathologies
  • Coral bleaching and disease: contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea)
  • Characterization of Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea fan corals
  • Disease in Zoanthids: dynamics in space and time
  • Microbial disease causation in marine invertebrates: problems, practices, and future prospects
  • Marine ecosystems and cholera
  • Seasonal and interannual cycles of endemic cholera in Bengal 1891-1940 in relation to climate and geography
  • Vibrio cholerae in recreational beach waters and tributaries of Southern California
  • Occurrence and distribution of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus in a subtropical Gulf of Mexico estuary
  • Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels
  • Demographic, landscape, and meteorological factors controlling the microbial pollution of coastal waters
  • Modeling studies of the effect of climate variability on MSX disease in eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations
  • How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?
  • Mycoses in red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) caused by two deuteromycete fungi (Penicillium corylophilum and Cladosporium sphaerospermum).