Reef Evolution, Trang 3Oxford University Press, 1999 - 414 trang Reefs are an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Visible from outer space, coral reefs are the largest biologically constructed features known; in close proximity their spectacular beauty and abundance of life is dazzling. Reefs are estimated to occupy only a small percentage of the oceans, but their importance to the marine environment is many-faceted and global. Reefs create harbours and allow the development of shallow basins with associated mangrove or seargrass communities; they protect coastlines from erosion; reefs are involved in the regulation of atmospheric carbon, which in turn contributes to climate control; ancient reefs can provide extensive oil and gas reservoirs. From a biological standpoint, however, the great significance of reefs lies in their ability to generate and maintain a substantial proportion of tropical marine biodiversity. This text documents those biological innovations which have moulded the evolution of reef ecosystems and given rise to the highly complex communities found today. The appearance of clonality, the acquisition of photosymbiosis and the radiation of predator groups are all discussed in depth. Throughout the book, Rachel Wood uses data from the fossil record to document the evolutionary development of reef ecosystems. This interdisciplinary approach has the aim of providing an analytical text which will be of value not only to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate courses, but also to researchers in ancient reef ecology. Rachel Wood is Royal Society University Research Fellow, and Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Nội dung
An introduction to reefs | 3 |
The recognition of ancient reefs | 16 |
ancient reef ecologies | 33 |
The role of physicochemical change | 123 |
collapse and recovery | 167 |
trends in form and function | 199 |
Thuật ngữ và cụm từ thông dụng
abundant algal ancient reef appear aragonite archaeocyath areas Basin benthic bioerosion biological bioturbation bivalves brachiopods branching bryozoans calcareous calcified cyanobacteria calcified sponges Cambrian carbonate platforms carbonate production Carboniferous cavities cement changes clonal colonies coral reefs coralline algae Cretaceous cryptic crypts cyanobacteria Devonian distribution diversity dominated early ecological encrusting endolithic environmental environments extinction event faunas fish foraminifera fossil record framework Frasnian gastropods genera geological global growth forms habitats hard substrates herbivores host increased Jackson Jurassic known Late lithification Lower Cambrian mass extinction Mesozoic metazoans micrite microbial microbialites modern coral reefs modern reefs modular morphologies multiserial nutrient Ordovician organisms Palaeozoic patch reefs Permian Phanerozoic photosymbiotic predation radiation reef biotas reef communities reef growth reef-building relatively Renalcis rudists scleractinian corals sea level sediment sessile shallow marine shallow-water shelf skeletal skeletons solitary species stromatolites stromatoporoids suggests symbionts tabulate corals taxa temperature thrombolites tissue Triassic tropical year¹ zooxanthellae zooxanthellate
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