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Author:

Veron, J. E. N. (John Edward Norwood)

Title:

A reef in time : the Great Barrier Reef from beginning to end / J.E.N. Veron.

Publisher:

Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr.,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2008

Description:

ix, 289 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Climatic changes--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Coral reef conservation--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Coral reef ecology--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Environmental responsibility--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Environmental protection--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--History.

Notes:

Originally published: 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.

Contents:

The ocean's canary. The Great Barrier Reef : an overview -- Corals and reefs : controls and processes -- The state of the Great Barrier Reef -- Mass extinctions and reef gaps -- Messages from deep time -- The Cenozoic roller-coaster -- Australia adrift -- The ice ages -- The last glacial cycle -- Many origins -- Stone age utopia -- An enhanced greenhouse world -- Temperature and mass bleaching -- Ocean acidity and coralline osteoporosis -- The ocean's canary.

Summary:

Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon rain forest or the parklands of Africa, but would endure forever. That is what I thought once, but I think it no longer." This book is Veron's Silent Spring for the world's coral reefs. --publisher.

ISBN:

067403497X (pbk.)
9780674034976 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316038159

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)