Biological Oceanography: An IntroductionThis popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography. As well as a clear and accessible text, learning is enhanced with numerous illustrations including a colour section, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments at the back of the book. The comprehensive coverage of this book encompasses the properties of seawater which affect life in the ocean, classification of marine environments and organisms, phytoplankton and zooplankton, marine food webs, larger marine animals (marine mammals, seabirds and fish), life on the seafloor, and the way in which humans affect marine ecosystems. The second edition has been thoroughly updated, including much data available for the first time in a book at this level. There is also a new chapter on human impacts - from harvesting vast amounts of fish, pollution, and deliberately or accidentally transferring marine organisms to new environments. This book complements the Open University Oceanography Series, also published by Butterworth-Heinemann, and is a set text for the Open University third level course, S330.
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... populations in particular areas. Chapter 3 introduces the various types of phytoplankton, and describes the way these floating plants manufacture energy-rich organic compounds by the process of photosynthesis. Plants require energy from ...
... populations cause changes in marine ecosystems. Attention is given to problems of overfishing and exploitation of marine resources, and to the impacts of various types of pollution. There is also consideration of the changes caused by ...
... population density that can be supported by the environment. Populations that are kept at low densities by abiotic or biotic environmental factors are influenced largely by the parameter r, whereas populations that are at or near the ...
... population sizes to the maximum that the environment will sustain (i.e. to the carrying capacity of the environment), and they sustain this population size for long periods by utilizing their resources very efficiently. Table 1.1 ...
... on economic models based on fish abundance and catch, while ignoring the rest of the biology of the sea. Classic texts on fisheries dealt primarily with the effects of harvesting on fish population size (e.g. On the Dynamics of 12.
Contents
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CHAPTER 4 ZOOPLANKTON | 74 |
CHAPTER 5 ENERGY FLOW AND MINERAL CYCLING | 112 |
CHAPTER 6 NEKTON AND FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY | 147 |
CHAPTER 7 BENTHOS | 177 |
CHAPTER 8 BENTHIC CORAMUNITIES | 196 |
GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE | 266 |
CONVERSIONS | 267 |
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING | 269 |
ANSWERS AND COMMENTS TO QUESTIONS | 270 |
GLOSSARY | 287 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 304 |
INDEX | 307 |
CHAPTER 9 HUMAN IMPACTS ON MARINE BIOTA | 247 |