Sapp, Jan,

What is natural? : coral reef crisis / Jan Sapp. - xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-265) and index.

Green Island -- Guam, 1968-1969 -- The war of the worlds -- Under capricorn -- Crown-of-thorns inquisition -- A tree fell in the forest... -- Knowledge and action -- Oceans apart -- Remote control -- Complexity and stability -- Cyclical outcries -- Crossroads -- Coral bleaching and global warming -- Cassandra and the seastar.

0195123646 9780195123647

98004634


Crown-of-thorns starfish
Coral reef ecology
Coral reef ecology--Research

QL384.A8 / S27 1999

577.789