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List of topic boxes and case studies | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
History and research approaches | p. 1 |
History | p. 1 |
Research approaches | p. 9 |
Cold-water corals | p. 20 |
Ecological categorisation of corals | p. 20 |
The five cold-water coral taxa | p. 24 |
Environmental controls on cold-water coral distribution | p. 43 |
Global patterns of cold-water scleractinian diversity | p. 51 |
Molecular phylogeny of cold-water corals | p. 52 |
Linkages and connectivity | p. 58 |
Biology | p. 67 |
Anatomy | p. 68 |
Morphology | p. 72 |
Food supply and nutrition | p. 73 |
Growth rates | p. 83 |
Ecophysiology | p. 94 |
Reproduction | p. 100 |
Larval biology and dispersal | p. 104 |
Reefs and mounds | p. 108 |
Reef initiation and development | p. 109 |
Reef sedimentation | p. 112 |
Defining coral carbonate mounds | p. 115 |
Mound development | p. 119 |
Coral carbonate mound morphology | p. 135 |
Global distribution of coral carbonate mounds | p. 139 |
Habitats and ecology | p. 142 |
Habitats | p. 144 |
Biodiversity | p. 151 |
Seamounts, endemism and refugia | p. 158 |
Species interactions | p. 160 |
Fish assemblages | p. 163 |
Predictive mapping | p. 168 |
Palaeontology | p. 175 |
Triassic dawn | p. 175 |
Fossil record of cold-water corals | p. 180 |
Taphonomy | p. 193 |
Preservation of the coral-associated fauna | p. 198 |
Corals as archives | p. 210 |
Biomineralisation | p. 211 |
Temperature records | p. 225 |
Water-mass history | p. 230 |
Pollution and nutrient records | p. 233 |
Impacts and conservation | p. 237 |
Impacts | p. 237 |
Conservation | p. 254 |
Glossary | p. 263 |
References | p. 277 |
Index | p. 324 |
Colour plate section is between pages 144 and 145. | |
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