This book began life as a series of lectures given to second and
third year undergraduates at Oxford University. These lectures were
designed to give students insights as to how marine ecosystems
functioned, how they were being affected by natural and human
interventions, and how we might be able to conserve them and manage
them sustainably for the good of people, both recreationally and
economically. This book presents 10 chapters, beginning with
principles of oceanography important to ecology, through
discussions of the magnitude of marine biodiversity and the factors
influencing it, the functioning of marine ecosystems at within
trophic levels such as primary production, competition and
dispersal, to different trophic level interactions such as
herbivory, predation and parasitism. The final three chapters look
at the more applied aspects of marine ecology, discussion
fisheries, human impacts, and management and conservation.
Other textbooks covering similar topics tend to treat the topics
from the point of view of separate ecosystems, with chapters on
reefs, rocks and deep sea. This book however is topic driven as
described above, and each chapter makes full use of examples from
all appropriate marine ecosystems. The book is illustrated
throughout with many full colour diagrams and high quality
photographs.
The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students at
colleges and universities, and it is hoped that the many examples
from all over the world will provide global relevance and
interest.
Both authors have long experience of research and teaching in
marine ecology. Martin Speight's first degree was in marine zoology
at UCNW Bangor, and he has taught marine ecology and conservation
at Oxford for 25 years. His research students study tropical marine
ecology from the Caribbean through East Africa to the Far East.
Peter Henderson is a Senior Research Associate at the University of
Oxford, and is Director of Pisces Conservation in the UK. He has
worked on marine and freshwater fisheries, as well as ecological
and economic impacts and exploitation of the sea in North and South
America as well as Europe.
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