The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-31303-0 (ISBN)
Thisvolume presents a broad panorama of the current status of research ofinvertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book the Cnidarians aretraced from the Earth's primordial oceans, to their response to the warming andacidifying oceans. Due to the role of corals in the carbon and calcium cycles,various aspects of cnidarian calcification are discussed. The relation of theCnidaria with Mankind is approached, in accordance with the Editors' philosophyof bridging the artificial schism between science, arts and Humanities. Cnidarians' encounters with humans result ina broad spectrum of medical emergencies that are reviewed. The final section ofthe volume is devoted to the role of Hydra and Medusa in mythology and art.
Dr. Stefano Goffredo is consolidating his career. His scientific initiative promises to lead marine biology towards integrative interdisciplinary syntheses. By extensive collaborations with leaders in different fields, such as physics, chemistry, computational science and photobiology SG developed multidisciplinary methodologies attacking the questions identified by his field studies with novel laboratory tools. In his research, SG has developed original aspects in the interpretation of growth and population data, population dynamics, reproductive biology and conservation monitoring. Recently, he has expanded his interests to the biomineralization in relation to environmental parameters. Prof. Emeritus Zvy Dubinsky of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences studies the response of the photosynthetic apparatus of microalgae to the intensity and spectral composition of underwater irradiance and nutrient concentration. Dubinsky and his team focus on three systems – Phytoplankton in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and Lake Kinneret; Zooxanthellae living as endosymbionts in reef building corals; and algal mass cultures for the production of biodiesel and fine chemicals.
Part 1 Genesis, Evolution, and Systematics.- Part 2Zoogeography.- Part 3 Calcification.- Part 4 Reproduction and PopulationEcology.- Part 5 Symbiosis. -Part 6 Immune system. -Part 7 Photobiology andCircadian Clock.- Part 8 Global Climate Change. -Part 9 Medical Aspects andApplications.- Part 10 Management and Conservation.- Part 11 In Myth and Art.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XX, 855 p. 288 illus., 182 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Schlagworte | Actiniaria • Animal ecology • Anthozoans • Biomedical and Life Sciences • Ceriantharia • Cnidaria evolution, systematics, zoogeography • Cnidarian envenomations, immunity • Coral calcification • Ediacaran system • Freshwater & Marine Ecology • Freshwater & Marine Ecology • Hydrozoa • Invertebrates • Marine & Freshwater Sciences • marine and freshwater sciences • Marine & Freshwater Sciences • Model invertebrates • Mythology (Medusa, Hydra, Perseus) • Oceanic geochemistry • Oceanography • Population Ecology • Scleractinia • stable isotope • symbiosis |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-31303-7 / 3319313037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-31303-0 / 9783319313030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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