The Future of Coral Reefs Research Submitted to ICRS 2020, Bremen, Germany

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: artificial structures; benthic cover; biodiversity; biogeochemical dynamics; biogeography; C. frondosa; carbonate chemistry dynamics; Caribbean; Cassiopea xamachana; climate change; conservation; coral bleaching; coral disease; coral health; coral mortality; coral mortality index; coral reef; coral reef ecosystem; coral reef monitoring; coral reef resilience; coral reefs; Coral Triangle; cox1; crustacea; dinoflagellates; dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC); DNA barcoding; El Niño; ENSO; equilibrium points; extinction; extracellular calcifying fluid (ECF); global warming; Gnathiidae; Great Barrier Reef; habitat forming species; hyperspectral imaging; in situ monitoring; Indian Ocean; indicator species; Indonesian ThroughFlow; inorganic mineralization; Isopoda; Jaffna Peninsula; long-term mortality series; Lophelia pertusa; LULC; Madagascar; Maldives; marine biomineralization; marine optics; mass coral bleaching; mass mortality; metamorphosis; molecular systematics; Moorea Island; morphotypes; natural variability of environmental conditions; nutrients; ocean acidification; ocean acidification (OA); ocean warming; octocorals; omega; overfishing; oxybenzone; parrotfish; phylogeny; planulae; population dynamics; reef ecology; reef fish; reef health; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; review; satellite; Scyphozoan; Seaflower Biosphere Reserve; settlement; stable isotope; structural complexity; structure associations; superspectral; survival; SUSC; symbiodiniaceae; symbiosis; symbiotic algae; temperature; topobathymetry; Trinidad coral reefs; VHR; zoantharians; zooxanthellate
• ISBN: 9783036540344; 3036540334; 9783036540337; 3036540342
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4034-4

This volume contains a series of papers prepared for presentation at the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium, originally planned for July 2020 in Bremen, Germany, but postponed until 2021 (online) and 2022 (in person) because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It contains a series of papers illustrating the breadth of modern studies on coral reefs and the response of the reef science community to the threats that coral reefs now face, above all from climate change. The first group of papers focus on the biology of a selection of reef organisms, ranging from sea fans to coral dwelling crabs. The next group describe studies of coral communities and ecological interactions in regions as diverse as Florida, Kenya, Colombia, and Norway. Further papers describe investigations into the effects of global warming (in the Maldives and in Timor-Leste) and of other impacts (UV blockers, ocean acidification). The final two papers describe the latest applications of satellite and camera technology to the challenge of mapping and monitoring reefs.