World atlas of coral reefs : Spalding, Mark : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Source: Cambridge, UK

1 atlas (424 p.) 31 cm

"Published in association with UNEP-WCMC by the University of California Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index (p.398-424)

Understanding Coral Reefs -- The World of Coral Reefs -- Defining coral reefs -- Patterns of diversity -- Quantifying diversity -- Organisms of the coral reef -- Signs of Change -- The importance of reefs -- Threats to reefs -- Responses -- Reef Mapping -- Reef mapping techniques -- Global reef mapping -- The Atlantic and Eastern Pacific -- Nortern Caribbean -- Florida and the US Gulf of Mexico -- Bermuda -- Bahamas -- Turks and Caicos Islands -- Western Caribbean -- Mexico -- Belize -- Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador -- Costa Rica and Panama -- Colombia and Ecuador -- Cuba -- Jamaica -- Cayman Islands -- Eastern Caribbean and Atlantic -- Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Navassa Island -- Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands -- The Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago -- Venezuela and Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao -- Brazil and West Africa -- The Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia -- Western Indian Ocean -- Kenya and southern Somalia -- Tanzania -- Mozambique and South Africa -- Madagascar -- Mayotte, Comoros and outlying islands -- Seychelles -- Mauritius and Reunion -- Central Indian Ocean -- India, Pakistan and Bangladesh -- Sri Lanka -- Maldives -- British Indian Ocean Territory -- Middle Eastern Seas -- Northern Red Sea: Egypt, Israel, Jordan -- Saudi Arabia -- Central Red Sea: Sudan -- Southern Red Sea: Eritrea and Yemen -- Southern Arabian Region: Yemen, Djibouti, northern Somalia and Oman -- Arabian Gulf: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran -- Southeast Asia -- Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia -- Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam -- Indonesia -- Philippines -- Spratly Islands, Tung-Sha (Dongsha Qundao) Reefs and the Paracel Islands -- Vietnam and China -- Taiwan and Japan -- The Pacific Ocean -- Australia -- West Australia -- North Australia -- Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef -- The Coral Sea -- High latitude reefs -- Melanesia -- Papua New Guinea -- Solomon Islands -- New Caledonia -- Vanuatu -- Fiji -- Micronesia -- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam -- Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia -- Marshall Islands -- Kiribati and Nauru -- Polynesia -- Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna -- Tokelau, Samoa and American Samoa -- Tonga and Niue -- Cook Islands -- French Polynesia, the Pitcairn Islands and Clipperton Atoll -- Hawai'i and the US minor outlying islands