2003 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology

Assessing the Health of Pacific Corals: Week 1

Main Introduction • Updated Schedule • Suggested Readings

Suggested Readings for Week 1

General coral reef information review

Life and death of coral reefs. (Ed.) C. Birkeland, publisher- Chapman and Hall
Paul Humanns series of reef organism id guides
Pisces guide to Caribbean reef ecology by W. Alevizon
The Enchanted Braid: Coming to terms with nature on the coral reef by O. Davidson
Oceanographic processes of coral reefs: physical and biological links in the Great Barrier Reef by E. Wolanski
Hawaiian Coral reef ecology by D. Gulko. Mutual Publishing

Histopathology review

Human histology and pathology book: first few chapters on cell structure, function, types and tissues (stop at organ systems)
General histopathology book: chapters on cellular responses to injury, inflammation, infections, growth disorders, and neoplasia (stop at vascular diseases and systems pathology)

Examples of texts

Young, B., and J. Heath. 2000. Wheater’s functional histology: a text and color atlas, 4th edition. Churchill-Livingstone, Philadelphia, PA

Burkitt, H., A. Stevens, J. Lowe, and B. Young. Wheater’s basic histopathology: a color atlas and text. Churchill-Livingstone, Philadelphia, PA

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