Human impacts on coral reefs : facts and recommendations = Impacts des activites humaines sur les recifs coralliens : connaissances et recommandations / edited by Bernard Salvat.

Moorea, Polynesie Francaise : Museum national d'histoire naturelle et Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Antenne de Tahiti, Centre de l'environment, c1987.

253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

English or French.

Collecting of corals and shells / S.M. Wells and A.C.Alcala -- Collecting reef fishes for aquaria / J.E. Randall -- The biological effects of intensive fishing upon coral reef communitites / J.L. Munro, J.D. Parrish and F.H. Talbot -- Dynamiting coral reefs for fish : a resource-destructive fishing method / A.C. Alcala and E.D. Gomez -- Poisons for fishing on coral reefs / L.G. Eldredge -- Other fishing methods destructive to coral / E.D. Gomez, A.C. Alcala and H.T. Yap -- Sewage and eutrophication / D.S. Marszalek -- Effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on corals / Y. Loya and B. Rinkevich -- Environmental effects of power plants on coral reefs and ways to minimize them / S. Neudecker -- Heavy metals pollution on coral reefs / B.E. Brown --Radioactivity in a coral ecosystem / J.-P. Bablet and G.-H. Perrault -- Effects on a coral environment of a nuclear detonation / J.-P. Bablet and G.-H. Perrault -- Dredging in coral reefs / B. Salvat -- Effects of construction activity on coral reef and lagoon systems / A.T. White -- Impacts of recreational activities on coral reefs / J.T. Tilmant -- Coral reef alien species / L.G. Eldredge -- Acanthaster planci infestations / R. Endean -- Ciguatera fish poisoning : an objective witness of the coral reef stress / R. Bagnis

Includes bibliographies.

Coral reef ecology.

Environmental impact analysis.

Human beings Influence of environment.

Salvat, Bernard.

Impacts des activites humaines sur les recifs coralliens.