LIFE SCIENCES
Coral Reef. Nature, Richness, Beauty
by Yuri Latypov
ISBN Number : 978 - 1- 73036 - 003 - 9
Authors Details
| Author Name | Image | About Author |
|---|---|---|
| Yuri Latypov |  |
Doctor Biological Sciences, Academic New-York Academy of Sciences and
Russian Ecological Academy are studying the fossil and modern corals. Yuri
Latypov first observed live corals in Australia bout 40 years ago and was struck by
the beautiful growth and diversity of these remarkable animals. Since then he has
had the opportunity to look and study at corals and coral reefs throughout the world
from Australia's Great Barrier Reef up to Seychelles and Mauritius. He is a laureate
of the National award for contributions to underwater exploration. He spent more
than 3,000 hours underwater. He has conducted fundamental and applied research
on coral in many places and has published the suits of these studies in different
scientific journals, 16 books (3-field guide of corals) and conference proceedings.
Dr. Latypov gives especial attention to studying of corals and reefs Vietnam. Last year he investigated
opportunities of restoration of reef communities and carried out experiments on artificial cultivation and
rehabilitation corals on the Vietnamese reefs. As part of geological and marine expeditions, scientific delegations,
on personal invitation, as well as a tourist has traveled almost the whole world. |
Book Description
Coral reefs represent the unique ecological phenomenon, which is taking place through many hundred millions years of geological history of our planet. They keep their ecological stability, despite radical evolutionary changes of all terrestrial biota. In human life, reefs play the important role in connection with their protective role in preservation of sea coasts from storms and hurricanes, their highest biological efficiency, allowing providing a high-grade albuminous food to men. They represent a unique show rich in colors and various forms. In many places of the world deposits of gold, diamonds, oil, gas, building materials are connected with them,. Pages of history, romantic and full of dramatic nature, are connected with reefs. A great number of ships ended their days on coral reefs in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Labyrinths of the Great Barrier Reef protected Australia from intrusion of the Japanese fleet during World War II. Today reefs are one of the most attractive objects of tourism all over the world. At the same time reefs suffer from fatal activity of men and their technical equipment. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was one of the first who paid attention to it. Preservation of reefs is a question of vital importance as reefs are built by organisms, to the greatest subject to pollution and overall influence of human activity: collection of coral colonies extent for building purposes, blasting operations fishes, uncontrolled commercial collection by divers of beautiful objects forming a bulk steady skeleton of coral reefs. It is not surprising, that coral polyps as the most attractive and bright objects of coral reef, draw attention of collectors and divers worldwide. A book of Yuri Latypov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, well-known expert in corals taxonomy, is designed for the general public visiting reefs of Indo-Pacific with the tourist and cognitive purposes. Mass forms of Indo-Pacific corals and the inhabitants of the reef described in the book and supplied with good photos and short comments, in an easy-to-read style, will allow a diver at least to any extent to be guided in variety of their forms at a place. This book can give general idea about specific and generic variety of corals in Indo- Pacific. I hope that it will be accepted with interest by mass readers who visit coral reefs of world. The Honoured Ecologist of Russia, Professor Boris Preobrazhensky.
