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Marine Ecology

Concepts and Applications

Erschienen am 23.04.2010, Auflage: 1/2010
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ISBN/EAN: 9781405126991
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

InhaltsangabePreface. Acknowledgments. 1 The physical template. 2 Marine biodiversity. 3 Primary production and chemosynthesis. 4 Primary consumption: marine herbivores and detritivores. 5 Predators, parasites, and pathogens. 6 Competition and succession. 7 Dispersal and settlement. 8 The exploitation and maintenance of marine and estuarine fisheries. 9 Threats to marine ecosystems: the effects of man. 10 Marine conservation. Appendix. References. Index.

Autorenportrait

Martin Speight is the author of a number of text books. He has taught marine ecology for many years at Oxford and is currently Director of Undergraduate teaching in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford. Pete Henderson is known well in both the UK and US for his marine research and consultancy work. He has many years' experience in applied ecological research, and lectures in population ecology and ecological methods at the University of Oxford. He has recently co-authored the book Ecological Methods with Prof. Sir Richard Southwood, and is a specialist in population dynamics and tropical and temperate crustacean and fish ecology.

Inhalt

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1 The physical template. 2 Marine biodiversity. 3 Primary production and chemosynthesis. 4 Primary consumption: marine herbivores and detritivores. 5 Predators, parasites, and pathogens. 6 Competition and succession. 7 Dispersal and settlement. 8 The exploitation and maintenance of marine and estuarine fisheries. 9 Threats to marine ecosystems: the effects of man. 10 Marine conservation. Appendix. References. Index.