Food Chains, Yields, Models, and Management of Large Marine Ecosystems

ISBN-13: 9780367012564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 332 str.

Kenneth Sherman

Opis

Draws on case studies from tropical, temperate, and Arctic waters around the world, comparing multispecies biomass yield models for various large marine ecosystems. Emphasis is given to adaptive management as a strategy for maximizing the sustainability and productivity of living marine resources.

Spis treści

Preface -- Sustainability of Resources in Large Marine Ecosystems -- A Carbon Budget for the Northeast Continental Shelf Ecosystem: Results of the Shelf Edge Exchange Process Studies -- Warm-Temperate Food Chains of the Southeast Shelf Ecosystem -- Continental Shelf Food Chains of the Northern Gulf of Mexico -- Resource Productivity and Fisheries Management of the Northeast Shelf Ecosystem -- Biomass, Yield Models, and Management Strategies for the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem1 -- Spatial-Temporal Scales and Secondary Production Estimates in the California Current Ecosystem -- The State of the Main Commercial Species of Fish in the Changeable Barents Sea Ecosystem -- Predictive Yield Models and Food Chain Theory -- Adaptive Strategies for Management of Fisheries Resources in Large Marine Ecosystems -- Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Fisheries Yield Models for Large Marine Ecosystems -- On the Causes for Variability of Fish Populations: The Linkage Between Large and Small Scales1 -- Global Epidemic of Noxious Phytoplankton Blooms and Food Chain Consequences in Large Ecosystems

O autorze

Kenneth Sherman