What Is Natural?: Coral Reef Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780195123647 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str.

Jan Sapp

Opis

During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-t horns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecologic al catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled.

Recenzje

'...contents of this book are well organized and extremely well researched...Like a good detective novel it keeps you moving from one page to the next as it explores the interactions of those involved in resolving the problem-in one way or the other.' Journal of Experimental Marine Ecology

O autorze

Jan Sapp is a Professor of the History of Science at Atkinson College, York University in Canada. He has written two other books for Oxford: Evolution by Assciation (1994) and Beyond the Gene (1987).