This interdisciplinary book illuminates the complex, diverse and symbiotic nature of coral reef systems and provides a scientific basis for reconstructing the coexisting relationship between humans and coral reefs.

This book aims to illuminate coral reefs which comprise a symbiotic system coexisting among ecosystems, landforms, and humans at various levels and to provide a scientific basis for its reconstruction. The authors conducted an interdisciplinary project called Coral Reef Science from 2008 to 2012 and obtained novel results and clues to unite different disciplines for a coral reef as a key ecosystem.

Is the first multidisciplinary approach to coral reef science Provides a basis for conservation of the most diversified ecosystem Shows the frontiers of an innovative strategy to coral reef conservation

Inhalt
Life History and Stress Response of Scleractinian Corals.- Chemical-Biological Characteristics of Coral Reef Ecosystem at Micro/Nano Scale: Effect of Multiple and Synergistic Stresses.- Coupling Remote Sensing and Coral Annual Band Data to Investigate the History of Catchment Land Use and Coral Reef Status.- A Review of Coral Studies of the Ryukyu Island Arc to Reconstruct its Long-term Landscape History.- Producing Plaster: Traditional Uses and Knowledge of Coral on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa.- Possible Articulations Between the Practices of Local Inhabitants and Academic Outcomes of Landscape History: Ecotourism on Ishigaki Island.- Response of Coral Reefs to Global Warming.- Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen as a regional-scale eutrophication stress on the coral reef ecosystem.