Many of the corals in Hawaiian waters are found nowhere else in the world. This field guide helps novice snorkelers as well as experienced divers to recognize and identify these corals. It is the first guidebook exclusively devoted to Hawaiian corals, presenting nearly 90 species in glowing color of which over 23 species have never been reported before. Corals of Hawai'i presents the latest information based on the most recent scientific work on Hawaiian corals.
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Doug Fenner is a marine biologist specializing in coral taxonomy. He has studied coral reefs in Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Palau, the Caribbean, the Philippines and has been invited by the World Wildlife Foundation to participate in ecological surveys of coral reefs.
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This is a great book !,
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This review is from: Corals of Hawaii: A Field Guide to the Hard, Black and Soft Corals of Hawaii and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway (Paperback)
What a pleasure it is to see this book. This must be THE definitive guide to the corals of Hawai'i. Clearly laid out, with lucid descriptions of the corals that are as valuable scientifically to the expert coral taxonomist as they are accessible to the novice enthusiast, this book is set to become the handbook that all divers and snorkellers in Hawai'ian waters will want to carry with them. Hawai'i is special : it is "far enough north and east to only have about sixty-six species of hard corals, compared to over five hundred in the Philippines, Indonesia and New Guinea", so the book is laid out to help divers learn the most commonly seen corals first. Learn the five corals you are most likely to meet and the rest becomes easier. The Coral Directory sets out the dominant and common species so that divers can get to grips with those first, progressing to the uncommon and rare. The photographs are clear and page references in the Coral Directory lead you straight to the detailed information about that coral in the body of the book. It just couldn't be easier!
This book is a reflection of the enthusiasm that Dr Fenner has for his subject and his talent as a teacher to convey that enthusiasm to his students.
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This review is from: Corals of Hawaii: A Field Guide to the Hard, Black and Soft Corals of Hawaii and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway (Paperback)
Finally, a comprehensive guidebook to the corals of Hawai'i. This book provides a fantastic resource for everyone from coral taxonomists to marine biology students to tourists. It provides excellent background material in the first few sections, a user-friendly Coral Directory, species photos and descriptions, and 15 pages of taxonomic notes. Together these features provide a great educational tool and clear, informative reading for everyone regardless of expertise level. No longer does the student of Hawaiian corals need to pick through obscure scientific reports and invertebrate tomes to cobble together information. Plus the research reflected in the taxonomic notes appears to contribute important advances in classification of corals in Hawai'i. Of equal importance, the text and photos are entertaining. Very nicely done.
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I'm sure this book is THE definitive field guide for hawaii's corals!,
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This review is from: Corals of Hawaii: A Field Guide to the Hard, Black and Soft Corals of Hawaii and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway (Paperback)
In a way, this book is discouraging. There are WAY more species of coral in Hawaii than I expected, or I even anticipated seeing while diving.
The photographs by author Douglas Fenner are superb, as are the descriptions of the hard, black, and soft corals. This is a book to be used as a field guide, not a book to sit on a bookshelf and collect dust.
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