Corals
28 Oct, 2021
570 Biology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which informed Charles Darwin’s first book, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, published in 1842. From corals, Darwin concluded that the Earth changed very slowly and was not fashioned by God. Now coral reefs, which some liken to undersea rainforests, are threatened by human activity, including fishing, pollution and climate change.
Guests
- Steve Jones
22 episodes
Senior Research Fellow in Genetics at University College London -
Nicola Foster No other episodes
Lecturer in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth -
Gareth Williams No other episodes
Associate Professor in Marine Biology at Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences
Reading list
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Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries
Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Karen E. Alexander and Enric Sala (eds.) (Springer, 2011) Google Books → -
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise
Steve Jones (Abacus, 2008) Google Books → -
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
Callum Roberts (Profile Books, 2019) Google Books → -
Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas
Forest Rohwer with Merry Youle (Plaid Press, 2010) Google Books → -
Coral Reefs: Majestic Realms under the Sea
Peter Sale (Yale University Press, 2021) Google Books → -
Coral Reefs: A Natural History
Charles Sheppard (Princeton University Press, 2021) Google Books → -
World Atlas of Coral Reefs
Mark Spalding (University of California Press, 2001) Google Books →
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