List of External Links

Chapter 1: Identity card of a coral reef

Coral Reef Facts. This webpage gives answers to the questions 'What is a (coral)reef?', 'How do coral reefs form?', 'Why are coral reefs in peril?'

Responsible: U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey

URL: http://coralreefs.wr.usgs.gov/facts.html

Last access: 26.11.2013

Chapter 2: Importance of coral reefs

Why Care about Coral Reefs? The importance of coral reefs easily explained.

Responsible: Coral Reef Alliance

URL: http://www.coral.org/resources/about_coral_reefs/why_care

Last access: 26.11.2013

Chapter 3: Coral reefs under attack!

Reefs at Risk. Information about bleaching, disease, and algal encrustation as well as about human impact on coral reefs

Responsible: U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey

URL: http://coralreefs.wr.usgs.gov/risk.html

Last access: 26.11.2013

A dangerous intersection : Human and climate destroy reef ecosystem. Case study (Indian Ocean).

Responsible: Earth Observatory, Rebecca Lindsey

URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CoralDeath/

Last access: 26.11.2013

Diseases of Reef-building Corals. Diseases of Reef-building Corals Web site.

Responsible: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

URL: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/PR/ coraldiseases.html.

Last access: 26.11.2013

Cyanide fishing on Indonesian coral reefs for the live food fish market - What is the problem? Article on Cyanide fishing.

Responsible: Peter J. Mous et al.

URL: http://www.cciforum.org/pdfs/Cyanide_fishing1.pdf.

Last access: 26.11.2013

Chapter 4: Coral bleaching

Coral Reef Watch Satellite Bleaching Alert System. NOAA's Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Satellite Bleaching Alert (SBA) system is an automated coral bleaching e-mail alert system designed to monitor the status of thermal stress conducive to coral bleaching.

Responsible: NOAA

URL: http://coralreefwatch-satops.noaa.gov/SBA.html

Last access: 26.11.2013

Chapter 5: Remote sensing for coral reef mapping

ReefGIS. Information about coral reefs mapped out in a Geographical Information System.

Responsible: Reefbase

URL: http://reefgis.reefbase.org/

Last access: 26.11.2013

The Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Understanding, Classifiying and Mapping Coral Reef Structures Worldwide Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Spaceborne Images.

Responsible: Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

URL: http://www.imars.usf.edu/MC/index.html

Last access: 26.11.2013

The Great Barrier Reef Bathymetry. High resolution map of the entire reef from the world's biggest satellite-derived bathymetry survey.

Responsible: EOMAP, Gilching, Germany

URL: http://www.eomap.de/great-barrier-reef/

Last access: 26.11.2013

General information about coral reefs

NOAA's Coral Reef Data Discovery Glossary. This glossary contains over 5,300 technical terms, with their definitions, explanations, and illustrative materials where apropos.

Responsible: NOAA

URL: http://www.coris.noaa.gov/glossary/welcome.html

Last access: 26.11.2013

Reefbase. A global information system for coral reefs.

Responsible: The WorldFish Center

URL: http://www.reefbase.org/main.aspx

Last access: 26.11.2013

The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) works hard to improve management and conservation of coral reefs by providing manuals, equipment, databases, training, problem solving, and helps with finding funds for reef monitoring - all coordinated in a global network.

URL: http://www.gcrmn.org/

Last access: 26.11.2013

Coral Reef Conservation Programme. CRCP supports effective management and sound science to preserve, sustain and restore valuable coral reef ecosystems.

Responsible: NOAA

URL: http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/

Last access: 26.11.2013