Marine Community Ecology and Conservation

28.02.2014

Englisch

9781605352282

Sinauer Associates

Nein

560

Gebundene Ausgabe

Mark Bertness is Robert Brown Professor of Biology at Brown University, USA. His research focuses on the structure, dynamics and conservation of shoreline communities - particularly salt marsh plant communities - and the sessile invertebrate and seaweed communities of rocky shores.

biodiversity, climate, climate change, ecology, ecosystem, marine, ocean, phytoplankton, plankton

PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre PSP - Hydrobiologie

Forward by JBC Jackson and Robert Treat Paine.- 1. A Historical Perspective of Marine Community Ecology; John F. Bruno, Brian R. Silliman, John J. Stachowicz and Mark D. Bertness.- PART 1: PROCESSES THAT GENERATE PATTERN IN MARINE COMMUNITIES.- 2. The Physical Context of Marine Communities; Marc Weissburg, Brian Helmuth and Jon Witman.- 3. Foundation Species in Marine Ecosystems; Andrew H. Altieri and Johan van de Koppel.- 4. Marine Dispersal, Ecology, and Conservation; Stephen R. Palumbi and Malin L. Pinsky.- 5. The Role of Infectious Disease in Marine Communities; Kevin D. Lafferty and C. Drew Harvell.- 6. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Does Pattern Influence Process?; Mary I. O'Connor and Jarrett E. Byrnes.- 7. The Biogeography of Marine Communities; Eric Sanford.- 8. Historical Ecology: Informing the Future by Learning from the Past; Heike K. Lotze and Loren McClenachan.- PART 2: COMMUNITY TYPES.- 9. Intertidal Rocky Shores; Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi and Geoffrey C. Trussell.- 10. Soft Sediment Communities; James E. Byers and John H. Grabowski.- 11. Salt Marshes; Mark D. Bertness and Brian R. Silliman.- 12. Ecology of Seagrass Communities; Emmett Duffy, Randall Hughes and Per Moksnes.- 13. Coral Reef Ecosystems: A Decade of Discoveries; Isabelle M. Côté and Nancy Knowlton.- 14. Kelp Beds; Robert Steneck and Craig Johnson.- 15. Pelagic Communities; Jon Fisher and Ken Frank.- 16. Phytoplankton Communities; Kyle F. Edwards and Elena Litchman.- 17. Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities; Lauren S. Mullineaux.- PART 3: CONSERVATION.- 18. Services of Marine Ecosystems: A Quantitative Perspective; Edward B. Barbier, Heather M. Leslie and Fiorenza Micheli.- 19. Threats to Marine Ecosystems: Climate Change and Bottom-up Forcing; John Bruno and C. Harley.- 20. Threats to Marine Ecosystems: Overfishing and Habitat Degradation; Boris Worm and Hunter S. Lenihan.- 21. Ecosystem Based Approaches to Marine Conservation and Management; Benjamin S. Halpern and Tundi Agardy.- 22. Marine Restoration Ecology; Sean P. Powers and Katharyn E. Boyer.- 23. The Future of Marine Conservation and Management; Mary Ruckelshaus, Peter Kareiva and Larry Crowder.

286 mm

22.7 cm