- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today's coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral-reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. Coral Whisperers captures a critical moment in the history of coral-reef science. Based on over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge as signs and measures, but also as a way out of the projected collapse of life on earth"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Coral whisperers (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Coral whisperers (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction : coral whisperers -- Corals in the Anthropocene : an interview with Peter Sale -- Coral scientists between hope and despair -- Prophet of doom : an interview with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg -- Bleached! placing death on record -- The pristine is gone : coral reefs present and past : an interview with Jeremy Jackson -- Nursing corals back to life : fragments of hope -- Building bridges and trees in Florida's coral nurseries : an interview with Ken Nedimyer -- Coral law under threat -- Into the deep : the Cinderella of corals : an interview with J. Murray Roberts -- The coral holobiont : hope and the genomic turn -- A super coral scientist : an interview with Ruth Gates -- Conclusion : coral scientists : an emotional race against time -- List of interviews.
- LCCN
- 2018013586
- OCLC
- ssj0002033322
- Author
Braverman, Irus, 1970-
- Title
Coral whisperers [electronic resource] : scientists on the brink / Irus Braverman.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Braverman, Irus, 1970- author. Coral whisperers Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298842 (DLC) 2018008708