Editorial: corals, reefs and marine biodiversity
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BIODIVERSITY OF CORAL REEFS
Editorial: corals, reefs and marine biodiversity Bert W. Hoeksema & Sancia E. T. van der Meij
Received: 11 January 2013 / Accepted: 16 January 2013 / Published online: 29 January 2013 # Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity This issue of Marine Biodiversity contains a selection of papers that were presented as a talk or digital object during the session “Biodiversity of Coral Reefs” at the 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen (26–30 September, 2011). During the 1st World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Valencia (11–15 November, 2008) a similar session on coral reefs was organized: “The Coral Triangle: patterns and processes in marine species richness and habitat diversity” (Miloslavich and Klein 2009). Coral reefs are well-known for their high biodiversity (Paulay 1997; Bouchet 2006; Hoeksema 2007), and therefore it was clear that sessions on biodiversity of coral reefs were apt for these conferences. For the session “Biodiversity of Coral Reefs” a total of 23 oral presentations and 16 digital objects was accepted. The participants who presented their research came from various countries around the world: Australia (4), Bangladesh, Colombia, France, Greece, India (4), Indonesia (2), Iran, Italy (3), Japan (3), Mexico, the Netherlands (2), Norway, Oman, Portugal (2), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (4), and the United States of America (5). The research on which they reported concerned corals and reefs in various parts of the world: Indo West-Pacific (19), W Atlantic / Caribbean (5), Mediterranean (4), E Atlantic (2), general/global (9).
Topics on corals and coral reefs in the journal marine biodiversity History Marine Biodiversity is a continuation of Senckenbergiana maritima, which was published between 1969 and 2008 B. W. Hoeksema (*) : S. E. T. van der Meij Department of Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
(Volumes 1–38). Senckenbergiana maritima published papers on all aspects of marine sciences, in particular on marine biology, palaeontology, geochemistry, oceanography, geology and sedimentology. This ‘International Journal of Marine Sciences’ was published by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), and had two sister journals, Senckenbergiana lethaea with articles on palaeontology and geology, and Senckenbergiana biologica with contributions on zoology and botany. All three Senckenbergiana titles ceased publication in December 2008. As successor of Senckenbergiana maritima, Marine Biodiversity started in 2009 with Vol. 39, devoted to all aspects of biodiversity research in marine ecosystems. It encourages contributions dealing with the understanding of the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity in marine systems and the role of species in structuring marine ecosystem functioning. In comparison to its predecessor, Marine Biodiversity
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