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Coral Whisperers : Scientists on the Brink /

In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today's coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, an...

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Autor principal: Braverman, Irus (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ; 3
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Coral Whisperers
  • 1. Coral Scientists between Hope and Despair
  • 2. "And Th en We Wept": Coral Death on Record
  • 3. Fragments of Hope: Nursing Corals Back to Life
  • 4. Coral Law under Threat
  • 5. The Coral Holobiont: Hope and the Genomic Turn
  • Conclusion: Coral Scientists on the Brink
  • Notes
  • Interviews
  • Index