Reef evolution/
Rachel Wood
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- xi, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO REEFS: BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN: An introduction to reefs -- The recognition of ancient reefs -- The record: ancient reef ecologies -- PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS: The role of physicochemical change -- Mass extinctions: collapse and recovery -- PART III: EVOLUTIONARY INNOVATION: Life on a substrate: trends in form and function -- The rise of biological disturbance -- Photosymbiosis: access to a new metabolic capacity.