A Guide to the Deep-water Sponges of the Aleutian Island Archipelago

A Guide to the Deep-water Sponges of the Aleutian Island Archipelago
Author: Robert P. Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011
Genre: Sponges
ISBN:

Furthermore, sponges are extremely fragile and easily damaged by contact with fishing gear. High rates of fishery bycatch clearly indicate a strong interaction between existing fisheries and sponge habitat. Bycatch in fisheries and fisheries-independent surveys can be a major source of information on the location of the sponge fauna, but current monitoring programs are greatly hampered by the inability of deck personnel to identify bycatch. This guide contains detailed pecies descriptions for 112 sponges collected in Alaska, principally in the central Aleutian Islands. It addresses bycatch identification challenges by providing fisheries observers and scientists with the information necessary to adequately identify sponge fauna.Using that identification data, areas of high abundance can be mapped and the locations of indicator species of vulnerable marine ecosystems can be determined.

Symbiotic Microbiomes of Coral Reefs Sponges and Corals

Symbiotic Microbiomes of Coral Reefs Sponges and Corals
Author: Zhiyong Li
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9402416129

This book focuses on the symbiotic microbiomes of invertebrates in coral reefs, especially sponges and corals. It provides in-depth and up-to-date reviews on the microbial structure and diversity, metabolism and function, symbiosis and coevolution, environment and adaption, and bioactive potentials. Meanwhile, the future perspectives will be discussed according to the existing problems and the development trend. This book will be of particular interest to the professionals in marine ecology, marine biotechnology, as well as medicinal chemists and molecular biologists.

Timelines of Nearly Everything

Timelines of Nearly Everything
Author: Manjunath.R
Publisher: Manjunath.R
Total Pages: 2658
Release: 2021-07-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.

Porifera Research

Porifera Research
Author: Márcio Reis Custódio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2007
Genre: Sponges
ISBN: 9788574270234

Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems

Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
Author: André Freiwald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1242
Release: 2006-01-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540276734

Cold-water coral ecosystems figure the formation of large seabed structures such as reefs and giant carbonate mounds; they represent unexplored paleo-environmental archives of earth history. Like their tropical cousins, cold-water coral ecosystems harbour rich species diversity. For this volume, key institutions in cold-water coral research have contributed 62 state-of-the-art articles on topics from geology and oceanography to biology and conservation, with some impressive underwater images.

Bringing Fossils to Life

Bringing Fossils to Life
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0231536909

One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between purely theoretical paleobiological textbooks and those that describe only invertebrate paleobiology and that emphasize cataloguing live organisms instead of dead objects. For this third edition Donald R. Prothero has revised the art and research throughout, expanding the coverage of invertebrates and adding a discussion of new methodologies and a chapter on the origin and early evolution of life.

Carnivorous Sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal Zones Collected During the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition

Carnivorous Sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal Zones Collected During the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition
Author: author 1
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9781776709250

"Abstract: This research presents 17 new species of carnivorous sponges from the family Cladorhizidae sampled at bathyal and abyssal depths off the east coast of Australia during the RV Investigator 2017 Abyss Expedition. The species are comprised of six genera: Abyssocladia escheri sp. nov., A. annae sp. nov., A. gliscofila sp. nov., Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) maxisigma sp. nov., Cladorhiza australis nov. sp., C. poritea sp. nov., C. investigator sp. nov., C. moniqueae sp. nov., C. pentaeiros sp. nov., Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) freycinetensis sp. nov., Ch. (Ch.) callistemonex sp. nov., Ch. (Ch.) zygainadentonis sp. nov., Lycopodina nikitawimandi sp. nov., L. helios sp. nov., L. cassida sp. nov., L. brochidodroma sp. nov. and Euchelipluma claudochela sp. nov. Only three carnivorous species, A. desmophora, As. (As.) desmophora and C. (Meliiderma) tasmaniensis, have been recorded from Australia previously. This expedition also recovered two described species commonly recorded from the Southern Hemisphere Ch. (Ch.) clavata and L. calyx. This paper also redescribes two species from the South Pacific i.e. C. mirabilis and C. similis. Keywords: Porifera, Cladorhizidae, Abyssocladia, Asbestopluma, Cladorhiza, Chondrocladia, Lycopodina, Euchelipluma"--Page 3.