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This fully revised and expanded edition of "Sea Urchins" provides a wide-ranging understanding of the biology and ecology of this key component of the world's oceans. Coverage includes reproduction, metabolism, endocrinology, larval ecology, growth, digestion, carotenoids, disease and nutrition. Other chapters consider the ecology of individual species that are of major importance ecologically and economically, including species from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa. In addition, six new contributions in areas such as immunology, digestive systems and community ecology inform readers on key recent developments and insights from the literature. Sea urchins are ecologically important and often greatly affect
marine communities. Because they have an excellent fossil record,
they are also of interest to paleontologists. Research on sea
urchins has increased in recent years, stimulated first by
recognition of their ecological importance and subsequently their
economic importance. Scientists around the world are actively
investigating their potential for aquaculture and fisheries, and
their value as model systems for investigations in developmental
biology continues to increase. Collects and synthesizes the state of knowledge of sea urchin biology and ecologyExpanded from previous edition to include non-edible species, providing the needed basis for broader evolutionary understanding of sea urchins
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a bedrock of coastal livelihoods, as uncharted and perilous nautical hazards, as valuable natural resources, and as unique, natural wonders with secrets waiting to be unlocked. Australia's coral reefs have sustained a global interest as places to visit, and as objects of study, science, protection and conservation. Coral Reefs of Australia examines our evolving relationship with coral reefs, and explores their mystery and the fast pace at which they are now changing. Corals are feeling the dramatic impacts of global climate change, having undergone several devastating mass coral bleaching events, dramatic species range shifts and gradual ocean acidification. This comprehensive and engaging book brings together the diverse views of Indigenous Australians, coral reef scientists, managers and politicians to reveal how we interact with coral reefs, focussing on Indigenous culture, coastal livelihoods, exploration, discovery, scientific research and climate change. It will inform and inspire readers to learn more about these intriguing natural phenomena and how we can protect coral reefs for the future. FEATURES A unique interdisciplinary collection celebrating our relationship with Australia's coral reefs that brings together perspectives from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, coral reef scientists, managers and politicians. Covers the full geographical scope of Australia's reefs from the Indian Ocean's Cocos (Keeling) atoll in the West to the Pacific Ocean's Lord Howe Island in the East. Illustrated with high quality images of coral reef environments and people interacting with them. Covers the development of coral reef science in Australia and how scientists have interacted with reef managers and policy makers to guide effective stewardship of reefs.
Advances in Biological Science Research: A Practical Approach provides discussions on diverse research topics and methods in the biological sciences in a single platform. This book provides the latest technologies, advanced methods, and untapped research areas involved in diverse fields of biological science research such as bioinformatics, proteomics, microbiology, medicinal chemistry, and marine science. Each chapter is written by renowned researchers in their respective fields of biosciences and includes future advancements in life science research.
"Advances in Marine Biology" has been providing in-depth and
up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 --
over 45 years of outstanding coverage The series is well-known for
both its excellence of reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael
Lesser, with an internationally renowned Editorial Board, the
serial publishes in-depth and up-to-datecontent on a wide range of
topicsthat will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine
biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, and biological
oceanography. "Advances in Marine Biology" has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 45 years of outstanding coverage The series is well-known for both its excellence of reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael Lesser, with an internationally renowned Editorial Board, the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-datecontent on a wide range of topicsthat will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, and biological oceanography."
"Advances in Marine Biology" has been providing in-depth and
up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 --
over 45 years of outstanding coverage The series is well-known for
both its excellence of reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael
Lesser, with an internationally renowned Editorial Board, the
serial publishes in-depth and up-to-datecontent on a wide range of
topicsthat will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine
biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, and biological
oceanography.
Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Ralph Tollrian and Drew Harvell seek to change that here. By bringing together leading researchers from all fields to review common themes and explore emerging ideas, this book represents the most current and comprehensive survey of knowledge about the ecology and evolution of inducible defenses. Contributors examine organisms as different as unicellular algae and higher vertebrates, and consider defenses ranging from immune systems to protective changes in morphology, behavior, chemistry, and life history. The authors of the review chapters, case studies, and theoretical studies pinpoint unifying factors favoring the evolution of inducible defenses. Throughout, the volume emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach, integrating applied and theoretical ecology, evolution, genetics, and chemistry. In addition, Harvell and Tollrian provide an introduction and a conclusion that review the current state of knowledge in the field and identify areas for future research. The contributors, in addition to the editors, are May Berenbaum, Arthur Zangerl, Johannes Jaremo, Juha Tuomi, Patric Nilsson, Anurag Agrawal, Richard Karban, Marcel Dicke, Ellen Van Donk, Miquel Lurling, Winfried Lampert, Simon Frost, John Gilbert, Hans-Werner Kuhlmann, Jurgen Kusch, Klaus Heckmann, Luc De Meester, Piotr Dawidowicz, Erik van Gool, Carsten Loose, Stanley Dodson, Christer Bronmark, Lars Pettersson, Anders Nilsson, Bradley Anholt, Earl Werner, Curtis Lively, Frederick Adler, Daniel Grunbaum, and Wilfried Gabriel."
"Advances in Marine Biology" has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 40 years of outstanding coverage! The series is well-known for both its excellence of reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael Lesser (University of New Hampshire, USA), with an internationally renowned Editorial Board, the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date content on a wide range of topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, and biological oceanography. This thematic volume, edited by Geraint Tarling, provides a
comprehensive review of the biology of Northern Krill.
Grosse Datenmengen sind nicht nur das Ergebnis der Entwicklungen im Bereich von Heimautomatisierung und des Internet of Things. Zur Auswertung von Datenmengen sind Methoden und Verfahren entstanden, die mit den Begriffen "Data Mining", "Knowledge Discovery" oder "Big Data" verknupft sind. Der Anwender kann aus kommerziellen und Open-Source-Anwendungen wahlen, die versprechen, vollkommen neue Erkenntnisse aus seinen Daten zu generieren. Vergleichbar mit einem Werkzeugkasten muss der Nutzer nur einen oder mehrere der darin zur Verfugung stehenden Algorithmen fur die Datenanalyse wahlen, um neue und spannende Einblicke zu erhalten. Doch ist es wirklich so einfach? Kai Jannaschk geht diesen und weiteren Fragen nach. Dazu stellt er ein Modell fur ein systematisches und glaubwurdiges Data Mining vor. Weiterhin skizziert der Autor einen Ansatz zur Systematisierung von Algorithmen und Verfahren in der Datenanalyse.Der Autor Aktuell arbeitet Kai Jannaschk als Software- und Datenbankentwickler in Industrie und Wirtschaft. Sein Aufgabengebiet umfasst die Bereiche Konzeption, Entwurf und Umsetzung von Informationssystemen sowie Strukturierung und Aufbau von Infrastrukturen fur die Datenverarbeitung.
A bold and lyrical exploration of our fraught relationship with the sea's most magnificent inhabitant, the whale. Whales loom large in the human imagination. From a history of animals being harpooned worldwide to today's ecotourism operators and the work of marine biologists, whales have, for centuries, attracted myth, symbolism, significance, and exploitation. But whales, and the waters they inhabit, are changing. Even as the international community draws closer to a ban on factory whaling, whales surface with disturbing news from the deep. Once-rare whale strandings, pollution and toxins accrued in whale bodies, plastics consumed by whales, the stress of exposure to industrial sound, and diseases contracted from livestock are direct results of human activity. Incisive, provocative, and timely, Fathoms uses the story of the whale to examine our own story and that of the health of the planet.
Elements of Physical Oceanography is a derivative of the
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2nd Edition and serves as an
important reference on current physical oceanography knowledge and
expertise in one convenient and accessible source. Its selection of
articles all written by experts in their field focuses on ocean
physics, air-sea transfers, waves, mixing, ice, and the processes
of transfer of properties such as heat, salinity, momentum and
dissolved gases, within and into the ocean. Elements of Physical
Oceanography serves as an ideal reference for topical
research.
An Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry focuses on the ocean's
role in the biogeochemical cycling of selected elements and the
impact of humans on the cycling of these elements. Among the topics
covered are the chemical composition of seawater from the
perspectives of elemental speciation and the impacts of solutes on
water's physical behavior; biogeochemical phenomena which control
accumulation and preservation of marine sediments; marine chemistry
of radioactive and stable isotopes; and seawater pollution. The
book contains many examples as well as steady-state models to aid
readers in understanding this growing and complex science..
Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance
in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a
comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl
oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc. It
considers how they are farmed from spawning and culturing larvae in
hatcheries to adults in the ocean; how various environmental
factors, including pollution affect them; and how modern techniques
are successfully producing large numbers of cultured pearls. This
is the ultimate reference source on pearl oysters and the culture
of pearls, written and edited by a number of scientists who are
world experts in their fields.
This book is the only manual of its kind with exercises that apply to the diverse marine habitats of North America. The manual meets the needs of any introductory marine biology student, from the non-major to the prospective major with a background in the biological sciences. Each unit includes a broad range of exercises, so that instructors using the manual can select the exercises that best match the needs of their introductory course. The manual is also unique in providing extensively illustrated identification keys for three of the major marine lifeforms, allowing students to identify and classify organisms within the invertebrates, plankton, and fishes.
Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever book dedicated exclusively to the subject of microplastics. Importantly, this timely full-colour illustrated multidisciplinary book highlights the very recent realization that microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food chains around the world. Microplastic pollutants is currently an important topic in both industry and academia, as well as among legislative bodies, and research in this area is gaining considerable attention from both the worldwide media and scientific community on a rapidly increasing scale. Ultimately, this book provides an excellent source of reference and information on microplastics for scientists, engineers, students, industry, policy makers and citizens alike.
With the health of the world s oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vitally important role in protecting marine and coastal habitats. Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective draws on the results of a major EU-sponsored research project related to the establishment of networks of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas that transpired from February 2011 to January 2016. Featuring contributions by leading university- and national research institute-based scientists, chapters utilize the latest research data and developments in marine conservation policy to explore issues related to ways in which networks of MPAs may amplify the effectiveness and conservation benefits of individual areas within them. Topics addressed include the broader socio-economic impacts of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas; the use of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) to resolve conflicts between marine resource use and protection; special protection measures under the EU s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD); ecological value assessments in the Black Sea; the Ecosystem Approach (EA) for managing marine ecosystems; MPAs along Turkey s Black Sea coast; MPAs and offshore wind farms; and managing and monitoring MPA networks within and between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. Timely and important, Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective offers invaluable insights into the role of MPAs in preserving the welfare and long-term viability of our world s oceans.
Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited
by David W. Sims (Marine Biological Association, UK), the serial
publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics
which will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine
biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, oceanography.
Eclectic volumes in the series are supplemented by thematic volumes
on such topics as "The Biology of Calanoid Copepods" and
"Restocking and Stock Enhancement of Marine Invertebrate
Fisheries."
The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range. Despite very little research effort since the 1950s, the last ten years has seen a renaissance in hadal exploration, almost certainly as a result of technological advances that have made this otherwise largely inaccessible frontier, a viable subject for research. Providing an overview of the geology involved in trench formation, the hydrography and food supply, this book details all that is currently known about organisms at hadal depths and linkages to the better known abyssal and bathyal depths. New insights on how, where and what really survives and thrives in the deepest biozone are provided, allowing this region to be considered when dealing with sustainability and conservation issues in the marine environment.
Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited
by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler
(Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor
Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University
of Texas, USA), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date
reviews on a wide range of topics which will appeal to
postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science,
ecology, zoology, oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are
supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of
Calanoid Copepods.
Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited
by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler
(Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor
Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University
of Texas, USA), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date
reviews on a wide range of topics which will appeal to
postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science,
ecology, zoology, oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are
supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of
Calanoid Copepods.
Many of the world's fisheries are in trouble - they no longer yield
the catches, and potential profits, they once did. The habitats
that support fisheries have been damaged by pollution and other
irresponsible use of coastal land. Destructive fishing methods like
trawling and blast fishing have also changed fish habitats
resulting in support of fewer fish.
This new volume of Advances in Marine Biology contains reviews on a
wide range of important subjects such as: long-term oceanographic
and ecological research in the western English Channel; marine
biofouling on fish farms and its remediation; interactions between
behaviour and physical forcing in the control of horizontal
transport of decapod crustacean larvae; comparison of marine
copepod outfluxes: nature, rate, fate and role in the carbon and
nitrogen cycles.
"Five Easy Pieces" features five contributions, originally published in "Nature and Science", demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought - from the initially-contested realization that the crisis of fisheries and their underlying ocean ecosystems was, in fact, global to its broad acceptance by mainstream scientific and public opinion. Daniel Pauly, a well-known fisheries expert who was a co-author of all five articles, presents each original article here and surrounds it with a rich array of contemporary comments, many of which led Pauly and his colleagues to further study. In addition, Pauly documents how popular media reported on the articles and their findings. By doing so, he demonstrates how science evolves. In one chapter, for example, the popular media pick up a contribution and use Pauly's conclusions to contextualize current political disputes; in another, what might be seen as nitpicking by fellow scientists leads Pauly and his colleagues to strengthen their case that commercial fishing is endangering the global marine ecosystem. This structure also allows readers to see how scientists' interactions with the popular media can shape the reception of their own, sometimes controversial, scientific studies. In an epilogue, Pauly reflects on the ways that scientific consensus emerges from discussions both within and outside the scientific community.
This sixth volume in this established series deals with the
biochemical responses of fish to different environmental/ecological
factors. Environmental Toxicology captures vital issues affecting
the responses of fish to the chemical surroundings of their
environment. Chapters included in this volume identify the systems
found in fish to deal with xenobiotics, hormonal interactions
initiated in the presence of these chemicals, the unique mechanisms
used by fish to adjust to the present chemicals, and the new and
evolving mixtures of chemicals in their environment. Also included,
is a crucial review of the new methods being applied in fish
systems to understand the effects of xenobiotics to fish fitness -
a key theme in environmental health and critical to the future of
fish populations.
Als Forschungsgegenstand der Natur-, Sozial-, Geisteswissenschaften wie auch der Medizin ist Wasser als Quelle des Lebens Thema dieses breit gefacherten, interdisziplinaren Werkes. Der Bogen spannt sich vom Wassermolekul als Baustein alles Lebendigen uber das Wasser im Wechsel der Jahreszeiten und der Aggregatzustande, als Zivilisationsgarant und seltenes Gut hin zum Wasser als spirituelle Quelle, religioeses Symbol, Medium und Metapher. Das Werk leistet einen thematischen Beitrag zu der von den Vereinten Nationen ausgerufenen Internationalen Aktionsdekade "Wasser fur das Leben". |
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