Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and
understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has
trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation
biologists are working to address environmental problems humans
have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including
extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less
attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography
and fisheries biology have largely ignored issues of
conservation.
Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in
a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the
lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues.
Contributors including James M. Acheson, Louis W. Botsford, James
T. Carlton, Kristina Gjerde, Selina S. Heppell, Ransom A. Myers,
Julia K. Parrish, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Daniel Pauly offer
penetrating insights on the nature of marine biodiversity, what
threatens it, and what humans can and must do to recover the
biological integrity of the world's estuaries, coastal seas, and
oceans.
Sections examine: distinctive aspects of marine populations and
ecosystems; threats to marine biological diversity, singly and in
combination; place-based management of marine ecosystems; the
often-neglected human dimensions of marine conservation.
Marine Conservation Biology breaks new ground by creating the
conceptual framework for the new field of marine conservation
biology -- the science of protecting, recovering, and sustainably
using the living sea. It synthesizes the latest knowledge and ideas
from leading thinkers in disciplines ranging from larval biology to
sociology, making it a must-read forresearch and teaching faculty,
postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and advanced undergraduate
students (who share an interest in bringing conservation biology to
marine issues). Likewise, its lucid scientific examinations
illuminate key issues facing environmental managers, policymakers,
advocates, and funders concerned with the health of our
oceans.
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