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Tropical Marine Ecology (Hardcover)
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Tropical Marine Ecology (Hardcover)
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No realm on Earth elicits thoughts of paradise more than the
tropics. The tropical marine realm is special in myriad ways and
for many reasons from seas of higher latitude, in housing iconic
habitats such as coral reefs, snow white beaches, crystal clear
waters, mangrove forests, extensive and rich seagrass meadows and
expansive river deltas, such as the exemplar, the Amazon. But the
tropics also has an even more complex side: tropical waters give
rise to cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, and unique oceanographic
phenomena including the El Nino- Southern Oscillation which affects
global climate patterns. Tropical Marine Ecology documents the
structure and function of tropical marine populations, communities,
and ecosystems in relation to environmental factors including
climate patterns and climate change, and patterns of oceanographic
phenomena such as tides and currents and major oceanographic
features, as well as chemical and geological drivers. The book
focuses on estuarine, coastal, continental shelf and open ocean
ecosystems. The first part of the book deals with the climate,
physics, geology, and chemistry of the tropical marine environment.
The second section focuses on the origins, diversity, biogeography,
and the structure and distribution of tropical biota. The third
part explores the rates and patterns of primary and secondary
production, and their drivers, and the characteristics of pelagic
and benthic food webs. The fourth part examines how humans are
altering tropical ecosystems via unsustainable fisheries, the
decline and loss of habitat and fragmentation, Further, pollution
is altering an earth already in the throes of climate change.
Tropical Marine Ecology is an authoritative and comprehensive
introduction to tropical marine ecology for advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students. It is also a rich resource and reference
work for researchers and professional managers in marine science.
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