Coral Reefs of the Gulf : Adaptation to Climatic Extremes - Riegl, Bernhard; Purkis, Sam J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
1. Coral reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to climatic extremes in the world's hottest sea Bernhard Riegl, Sam Purkis -- 2. Environmental constraints for reef building in the Gulf Bernhard Riegl and Sam Purkis -- 3. Geomorphology and Reef Building in the SE Gulf Sam Purkis and Bernhard Riegl -- 4.Environmental Setting and Temporal Trends in Southeastern Gulf Coral Communities Kristi Foster, Greg Foster, Ashraf S. Al Cibahy, Suaad Al Harthi, Sam Purkis, Bernhard Riegl -- 5.Dynamics of Gulf coral communities: observations and models from the world's hottest coral sea Bernhard Riegl and Sam Purkis -- 6.Coral bleaching and mortality thresholds in the SE Gulf: highest in the world Bernhard Riegl, Sam Purkis, Ashraf Al-Cibahy, Suaad Al-Harthi, Edwin Grandcourt, Khalifa Al-Sulaiti, James Baldwin, Alaa Abdel-Moati -- 7.Diseases, harmful algae blooms (HABs) and their effects on Gulf coral populations and communities Bernhard Riegl, Andy W. Bruckner, Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Sam Purkis -- 8. Reef Fish and Fisheries in the Gulf Edwin Grandcourt -- 9.Extreme physical factors and the structure of Gulf fish and reef communities David A. Feary, John A. Burt, Georgenes H. Cavalcante, Andrew G. Bauman -- 10.Man-made structures as artificial reefs in the Gulf John A. Burt, Aaron Bartholomew, David A. Feary -- 11.The hermatypic scleractinian (hard) coral fauna of the Gulf Bernhard Riegl, Francesca Benzoni, Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Charles Sheppard -- 12.The octocoral fauna of the Gulf Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Leen van Ofwegen -- 13.Reef-associated macroinvertebrates of the SE Gulf J. David George -- 14.Marine algae (Seaweeds) associated with coral reefs in the Gulf David M. John -- 15.Conservation of Marine Ecosystems with a Special View to Coral Reefs in the Gulf Ashraf Al-Cibahy A., Khlaifa Al-Khalifa, and Benno Böer -- 16.Environmental concerns for the future of Gulf coral reefs Charles Sheppard, Mohsen Al-Husiani, F. Al-Jamali, Faiza Al-Yamani, Rob Baldwin, James Bishop, Francesca Benzoni,  Eric Dutrieux, Nicholas K Dulvy, Subba Rao V Durvasula, David A. Jones, Ron Loughland, David Medio, M. Nithyanandan , Graham M. Pilling, Igor Polikarpov, Andrew R.G. Price, Sam Purkis, Bernhard Riegl, Maria Saburova, Kaveh Samimi Namin, Oliver Taylor, Simon Wilson, Khadija Zainal.-.
Keywords: Marine sciences; Freshwater; Aquatic ecology .; Climate change; Earth sciences; Oceanography; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Earth Sciences, general; Oceanography