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Underwater Eden : saving the last coral wilderness on earth / edited by Gregory S. Stone & David Obura. |
| Call number: | 639.9736 UND |
| Publisher: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013. |
| Publication date: | 2013, ©2013. |
| Subject: |
Coral reef conservation -- Kiribati -- Phoenix Islands.
Coral reefs and islands -- Kiribati -- Phoenix Islands. Phoenix Islands (Kiribati) -- Environmental conditions. |
| Title: | Underwater Eden : saving the last coral wilderness on earth / edited by Gregory S. Stone & David Obura. |
| Physical description: | xi, 170 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm |
| Contents note: | In search of paradise / Gregory S. Stone -- History through a watery lens / Christopher Pala -- Parade of the bumpheads : Orona / Gerald R. Allen and Steven L. Bailey -- Birds and invaders : Rawaki / Raymond J. Pierce -- Beautiful aliens : the invertebrates / Mary Jane Adams -- Coral reefs and climate change / David Obura and Randi D. Rotjan -- Ecotourism in paradise : Kanton / Robert Barrel -- Protecting paradise / Eduard Niesten and Peter Shelley -- The future of the Phoenix Islands / Gregory S. Stone, David Obura, Sue Miller-Taei, and Tukabu Teroroko -- Living blue : making choices with the ocean in mind / Heather Tausig -- Phoenix Islands timeline -- Appendix : New England Aquarium research expeditions to the Phoenix Islands -- Species tally. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-156) and index. |
| Added author: |
Stone, Gregory S.
Obura, David O. |
| ISBN: | 9780226775609 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0226775607 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| LCCN: | 2012012025 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1421812 |
| Bib No.: | 1421812 |
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