Marine Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes

✍ Scribed by Rupert F. G. Ormond (editor), John D. Gage (editor), Martin V. Angel (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 472
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Until we have a firmer idea of the diversity of a wide range of marine habitats and what controls it, we have little hope of conserving biodiversity, or determining the impact of human activities such as mariculture, fishing, dumping of waste and pollution. This book brings together key studies from the deep sea and open ocean, to tropical shores and polar regions, to consider how comparable the patterns and processes underlying diversity are in these different ecosystems.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Foreword: The value of diversity......Page 14
1 - Marine biodiversity in its global context......Page 24
2 - Gradients in marine biodiversity......Page 41
3 - Pelagic biodiversity......Page 58
4 - Biological diversity in oceanic macrozooplankton: More than counting species......Page 92
5 - Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos......Page 117
6 - Diversity, latitude and time: Patterns in the shallow sea......Page 145
7 - High benthic species diversity in deep-sea sediments: The importance of hydrodynamics......Page 171
8 - Diversity and structure of tropical Indo-Pacific benthic communities: Relation to regimes of nutrient input......Page 201
9 - Why are coral reef communities so diverse?......Page 224
10 - The biodiversity of coral reef fishes......Page 239
11 - The historical component of marine taxonomic diversity gradients......Page 281
12 - Population genetics and demography of marine species......Page 297
13 - Discovering unrecognised diversity among marine molluscs......Page 316
14 - Ecosystem function at low biodiversity -- the Baltic example......Page 342
15 - Land--seascape diversity of the USA East Coast coastal zone with particular reference to estuaries......Page 360
16 - The development of mariculture and its implications for biodiversity......Page 395
17 - Protecting marine biodiversity and integrated coastal zone management......Page 417
18 - Conserving biodiversity in North-East Atlantic marine ecosystems......Page 438
Author index......Page 452
Species index......Page 460
Subject index......Page 466