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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: biology of coral reefs
  name:
    name part: Sheppard, Charles (Charles R. C.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Davy, Simon K.
  name:
    name part: Pilling, Graham M.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of coral reefs, providing an overview of the ecology of coral reefs and their functioning, and the biology of their major species groups. The responses to modern environmental pressures, climate change, and use of their resources is also described.
  table of contents: 1. Coral reefs: biodiverse and productive tropical ecosystems -- 2. The main reef builders and space occupiers -- 3. The abiotic environment -- 4. Symbiotic interactions -- 5. Microbial, microalgal, and planktonic reef life -- 6. Reef fishes: diversity, feeding, and food chains -- 7. Reef fisheries and reef aquaculture -- 8. Coral reefs in the modern world -- 9. Consequences to reefs of changing environmental stress -- 10. The future, human population, and management.
  note: Charles R.C. Sheppard, Simon K. Davy, and Graham M. Pilling.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef biology
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef ecology
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef conservation
  subject:
    topic: Coral Reefs
  subject:
    topic: Biologie des récifs coralliens
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des récifs coralliens
  subject:
    topic: Conservation des récifs coralliens
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef biology
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef conservation
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef ecology
  classification: QH95.8 .S54 2009
  classification: 578.77/89
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    name:
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
    identifier: (DLC) 2009016656
    identifier: (OCoLC)319064667
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 101115
    record change date: 20260318184523.2
    record identifier: in00005706114
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng