Download or read book High Definition 3D Coral Reef written by Chris Madsen and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces coral reefs, describing the marine animals and plants that incorporate the reef, how they cohabitate, and the relationship between predators and prey.
Download or read book High Definition 3D Space written by John Starke and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces space exploration, including the American and Soviet competition to reach space, the exploration of the Moon, and unmanned satellites exploring deep space.
Download or read book High Definition 3D Bugs written by John Starke and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re alive! At least that’s how children will feel as they peer through the glasses at 3D pictures of creepy-crawlies. Learn where to find some of the rarest and most endangered bugs, get cool insect facts, and meet beetles, tarantulas, butterflies, and a small but deadly menace: the malaria transmitting anopheles mosquito.
Download or read book High Definition 3D Amazing Magic written by John Starke and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to an incredible magic place where optical illusions and tricks befuddle and amuse. Kids won’t believe their eyes, as they try to figure out confounding conundrums, move through 3D mazes, and solve a host of other visually amazing and brain-twisting puzzles.
Download or read book Reef Magic 3D written by Chris Madsen and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the amazing world of a coral reef in stunning 3D in this illustrated book that is packed with information and facts.
Download or read book Reef Magic written by Funtastic Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cold Water Coral Reefs of the World written by Erik Cordes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs. Their role in these ecosystems is no less important than the influence that shallow-water coral reefs have on tropical systems. They create habitat structure, host endemic species, enhance elemental cycling, alter current flow, sequester carbon, and provide many other ecosystem services that we are just beginning to understand. The rapidly evolving state of knowledge of cold-water and deep-sea coral reefs has not been compiled in over 10 years. This volume synthesizes recent and historical information, reveals new findings from reefs that have been discovered only recently, and presents key avenues for future research. We are on the cusp of understanding the critical role that cold-water coral reefs play in the world’s oceans, and this book lays the foundation on which this knowledge will be built in the future.
Download or read book Reclaiming Popular Documentary written by Christie Milliken and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. Reclaiming Popular Documentary reverses this long-standing tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences. Editors Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson, who consider popular documentary to be a subfield of documentary studies, embrace an expanded definition of popular to acknowledge the many evolving forms of documentary, such as branded entertainment, fictional hybrids, and works with audience participation. Together, these essays address emerging documentary forms—including web-docs, virtual reality, immersive journalism, viral media, interactive docs, and video-on-demand—and offer the critical tools viewers need to analyze contemporary documentaries and consider how they are persuaded by and represented in documentary media. By combining perspectives of scholars and makers, Reclaiming Popular Documentary brings new understandings and international perspectives to familiar texts using critical models that will engage media scholars and fans alike.
Download or read book Coral Reefs of Australia written by Pat Hutchings and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a bedrock of coastal livelihoods, as uncharted and perilous nautical hazards, as valuable natural resources, and as unique, natural wonders with secrets waiting to be unlocked. Australia’s coral reefs have sustained a global interest as places to visit, and as objects of study, science, protection and conservation. Coral Reefs of Australia examines our evolving relationship with coral reefs, and explores their mystery and the fast pace at which they are now changing. Corals are feeling the dramatic impacts of global climate change, having undergone several devastating mass coral bleaching events, dramatic species range shifts and gradual ocean acidification. This comprehensive and engaging book brings together the diverse views of Indigenous Australians, coral reef scientists, managers and politicians to reveal how we interact with coral reefs, focussing on Indigenous culture, coastal livelihoods, exploration, discovery, scientific research and climate change. It will inform and inspire readers to learn more about these intriguing natural phenomena and how we can protect coral reefs for the future. Cultural sensitivity Readers are warned that there may be words, descriptions and terms used in this book that are culturally sensitive, and which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. While this information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided by the author in a historical context. This publication may also contain quotations, terms and annotations that reflect the historical attitude of the original author or that of the period in which the item was written, and may be considered inappropriate today. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this publication may contain the names and images of people who have passed away.
Download or read book Sound Images of the Ocean written by Peter Wille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Images of the Ocean is the first comprehensive overview of acoustic imaging applications in the various fields of marine research, utilization, surveillance, and protection. The book employs 400 sound images of the sea floor and of processes in the sea volume, contributed by more than 120 marine experts from 22 nations.
Download or read book Advances in 3D Habitat Mapping of Marine Ecosystem Ecology and Conservation written by Renata Ferrari and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatiotemporal Modeling and Analysis in Marine Science written by Junyu He and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the development of earth observation technologies (such as satellite remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicle, autonomous underwater vehicle, etc.), an era of big data with important and non-negligible spatial/temporal attributes comes. Novel and rigorous spatiotemporal methodologies and models are needed to process and analyze marine big data. Since many marine environmental processes, such as pollutants diffusion, algae distributions etc., vary or evolve across spatiotemporal domains, detecting the distributions and patterns of marine fauna and, particularly in the coastal regions, will improve our understanding of marine systems and can be beneficial in marine environmental management. The goals of this Research Topic, therefore, are two-fold: (a) to develop methodologies and models in theory and applications, including spatiotemporal geostatistics, geographic information system, deep learning, etc.; (b) to quantitatively gain the knowledge of the marine environment. This Research Topic will provide a platform for researchers to share and exchange their new knowledge gained in a spatiotemporal domain of marine or coastal regions. This Research Topic will cover, but is not limited to, the following areas: • Spatiotemporal variations of physical/chemical/biological indicators (such as chlorophyll, temperature, salinity, colorful dissolved organic matter, suspended solids, nutrients, microplastic, etc.) in marine. • Spatiotemporal variations of potential fishing grounds in marine. • Spatiotemporal variations of the ecosystems in coastal regions, such as salt marshes, mangroves, seagrass, macroalgae, etc. • Spatiotemporal distributions of the pollutants (such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, etc.) in marine and sediments. • Spatiotemporal evolution pattern modeling and prediction of the marine disasters and abnormal phenomena (such as algal bloom, typhoons, SST anomalies, etc).
Download or read book Understanding the Importance of Habitat Complexity for Juvenile Fish and the Application of 3D Printed Corals for Reef Restoration written by Emily Jean Ruhl and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral reef systems have been experiencing ongoing regional declines in important topographic and biotic complexity over the last 40 years. While studies have documented the importance of live coral cover in the habitat selection process of reef fishes, the role that habitat complexity plays in these choices is poorly understood. Here, we isolated the physical structure of a common Indo-Pacific reef building coral, Pocillopora damicornis, using 3D printed models to investigate complexity preferences and resulting behavior of the coral-associated lemon damselfish, Pomacentrus moluccensis. A secondary objective of this work was to determine if 3D printed objects could be used in reef restoration by providing critical habitat for fishes and acting as viable settlement sites for recruiting reef-building corals. During a cafeteria-style choice experiment, P. moluccensis was highly selective of the high and medium complexity corals over the low complexity coral. During behavioral observations, fish occupying 3D printed low complexity corals had the highest rate of abandonment and most deviant behavior from live and dead control P. damicornis coral heads. Conversely, fish placed on 3D printed medium and high complexity corals spent more time utilizing the shelter than fish on control corals and behaved similarly to the controls when not utilizing the shelter. These results show that coral physical structure is an important factor driving habitat preferences of P. moluccensis and plays a critical role in influencing their behavior. Further, coral settlement was observed using 3D printed settlement tiles made of different filaments placed on a Fijian reef. Coral settlement was highest on nGen material. Thus, artificial corals made using 3D printing technology designed to mimic the structural complexity of healthy reefs have the potential to be used as reef habitat restoration structures in the future.
Download or read book Seascape Ecology from characterization to evaluation of state and change over time written by Monica Montefalcone and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape ecology has been a discrete, established discipline since at least 1980. Its marine counterpart, seascape ecology, is barely a decade old, its first applications dating from the early 2010s. Lack of perception of the marine environment hampers the adoption of many landscape ecology approaches to the sea. Seascape ecology relies on special technologies such as remote sensing (either acoustic or optical), robotics, and scuba diving. Both disciplines deal with the spatial configuration of ecosystems and consider environmental heterogeneity and dynamics as the main subjects of study and the key for ecosystem functioning and persistence. Seascape is here intended as the totality of natural and anthropogenic characters of a marine region. To the geologist, it is defined by sedimentology and underwater geomorphology, to the biologist by the nature of the living cover of the seafloor, to the ecologist by the relationships among functional processes and the spatial organization of ecosystems. The goal of this research topic is to encourage original research, case studies, reviews, and viewpoints to identify research priority gaps and possibly contribute to filling them in. We will appreciate, in particular, manuscripts dealing with recent advances such as high-resolution habitat mapping; underwater soundscape and biophony; development, application and validation of biotic indices to assess seafloor integrity (as requested, for instance, by recent European Directives). Papers of interest may discuss the multivarious facets of stability and describe resistance and resilience patterns, the role of stress and disturbance, regime shift and phase shift, or may take up the challenge of integrating coastal landscape and seascape analyses. Studies of long-term series are welcome, as well as methodological improvements, and macroecological approaches on the importance of species diversity and connectivity in seascape organization.
Download or read book 7th International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals written by Santiago Herrera and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovative Approaches to Coral Reef Science by Early Career Researchers written by David A. Paz-García and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs written by David Hopley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from an earth science perspective, concentrating especially on modern reefs. Currently coral reefs are under high stress, most prominently from climate change with changes to water temperature, sea level and ocean acidification particularly damaging. Modern reefs have evolved through the massive environmental changes of the Quaternary with long periods of exposure during glacially lowered sea level periods and short periods of interglacial growth. The entries in this encyclopedia condense the large amount of work carried out since Charles Darwin first attempted to understand reef evolution. Leading authorities from many countries have contributed to the entries covering areas of geology, geography and ecology, providing comprehensive access to the most up-to-date research on the structure, form and processes operating on Quaternary coral reefs.
