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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 29N 624 SE 048 855 AUTHOR Birkeland, Charles, Ed. Marine Coastal Ecosystems DOCUMENT RESUME ED 29n 624 SE 048 855 AUTHOR Birkeland, Charles, Ed. TTTLR romparicnn hatwaon Atlantir anti Parifir Trnpiral Marine Coastal Ecosystems: Community Structure, Ecological Processes, and Productivity. Results and Scientific Papers of a Unesco/COMAR Workshop (Suva, Fiji, March 24-29, 198-). Unesco Reports in Marine Science 46. INSTITUTION United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Marine Sciences. PUB DATE 87 NOTE 282p.; Photographs may not reproduce well. AVAILABLE FROMMarine Information Centre, Division of Marine Sciences, UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris, France (free of chLrge). PUB TYPE Reports Research/Technical (143) -- Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Ecological Factors; *Ecology; *Environmental Education; Global Approach; Ichthyology; International Organizations; *Marine Biology; Marine Education; *Oceanography; Science and Society; Science Education; *Scientific and Technical Information IDENTIFIERS *UNESCO ABSTRACT This report presents t.e Unesco workshop conclusions concerning important differences among tropical seas in terms of ecological processes in coastal marine ecosystems, and the corresponding implications for resource management guidelines. The conclusions result from the presentation and discussion of eight review papers which are included in this document. These are: (1) "Nutrient Pools and Dynamics in Tropical, Marine, Coastal Environments, with Special Reference to the Caribbean and Indo-West Pacific Regions" (W. J. Wiebe); (2) "Nutrient Availability as a Major Determinant of Differences Among Coastal Hard-Substratum Communities in Different Regions of the Tropics" (Charles Birkeland); (3) "Sponge Biomass as an Indication of Reef Productivity in Two Oceans" (C. R. Wilkinson); (4) "Interoceanic Differences in Architecture and Ecology: the Effects of History and Productivity" (G. J. Vermeil); (5) "A Comparison of Some Eco o,,ical Processes on Coral Reefs of the Caribbean and the Great Barrier Reef" (P. W. Sammarco);(6) "Characteristics of Fish Communities on Coral Reefs and in Potentially Interacting Shallow Habitats in Tropical Oceans of the World" J. D. Parrish); (7) "Interoceanic and Regional Differences in the Reproductive Biology of Reef-Associated Fishes" (R. E. Thresher); and (8) "Reproduction and Recruitment of Corals: Comparisons Among the Caribbean, the Eastern Pacific, the Indo-West Pacific, and the Red Sea" (R. H. Richmond). (TW) Unesco reports 46 in marir.a science ev "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL IN MICROFICHE ONLY w HAS BEEN GRANTED BY ri_nrytnn ri nhollAteanIn A +I n Mit-% v.,..1,./1 etat.41 1,./vi L.0%,,VI/ %sot./ 1II 9-111.1(411 I Lit., TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES and Pacific tropical marine INFORMATIO,'l CENTER (ERIC)" U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION coastal ecosystems: Dece of EducaPona, Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI TYrms document has been reproduced as community sti.xture, ecevedfromthepersonor orgamzatIon cmc-tal,ng Minot changes have been made to morose reproduction oualay ecological processes, Pods of view or oramons stated .n tnrsdocu. nt do not necessanly represent &Pow and productivity OE RI pose on or oolcy Results and scientific papers of a Unesco/COMAR workshop University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji, 24-29 March 1986 INMS." -""ollrE -1 _44171:0,0kik% =1M..-. 44/MWO°S.ft OMM 7:1ZOO og00,V '4°4M1601e ii). ilimomirovi#010060---4N,,,1111110Fr /06152.442z21414t4R1411202e....._'.441111.11WP- -dosto'w1842 ""mEIRTEIMigaae-- --`14agmENIGF70-- _....gogesss2drd lawmfalOir. 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