Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Marine Biology

The purpose of this book is to provide a useful synthesis of the biology and culture of salmonid fishes. The important practices in salmonid culture as well as the theory behind them...

As the scientific community moves toward a greater awareness and understanding of the ocean's role in global changes, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of networked monitoring stations to obtain in-situ data. This book serves as a source of practical guidelines and know-how in the analysis of seawater. It presents analytical methodologies with step-by-step guidelines to help practitioners implement these methods quickly and reliably. With coverage of topics such as blank estimation, statistical evaluation, and control of recoveries, the text provides essential information...

Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology--a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes--revolutionized the field. Although this approach has been applied mainly to terrestrial ecosystems, there is increasing interest in quantifying macroecological patterns in the sea and understanding the processes that generate them. Taking stock of the current work in the field and advocating a research agenda for the decades ahead, Marine Macroecology draws together insights and approaches from a diverse group of scientists to show how...

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. Today coral reef systems provide some of the most sensitive gauges of environmental change, expressing the complex interplay of chemical, physical, geological and biological factors. The topics covered will...

This volume details new palaeolimnological findings from eastern and central Europe. It reviews the late Quaternary records from the Carpathian region and presents new results on the history of a crater lake, glacial lakes in the Tatra Mountains and Lake Bled.

Persistent organic contaminants, which are bioaccumulative and toxic are a concern for the ecosystems and human health and are regulated under international law (global and regional conventions, besides other). If semivolatile, they cycle in different environmental compartments and follow complex transport pathways. The ocean is believed to play a key role in the cycling by accumulating and storing the contaminant and providing a transport medium. But substance fate in the marine environment is not fully understood yet. Here, the global multicompartment chemistry-transport model MPI-MCTM...