E-Books →Tropical Marine Ecology

Tropical Marine Ecologydocumentsthe structure and function of tropical marine populations, communities, and ecosystems in relation to environmental factors including climate patterns and climate change, and patterns of oceanographic phenomena such as tides and currents and major oceanographic features, as well as chemical and geological drivers. The book focuses on estuarine, coastal,continentalshelf and open ocean ecosystems.The first part of the book dealswith the climate, physics, geology, and chemistry of the tropical marine environment. The second section focuses on the origins, diversity, biogeography, and the structure and distribution of tropical biota. The third part explores the rates and patterns of primary and secondary production, and their drivers, and the characteristics ofpelagic and benthicfood webs. The fourth part examines how humans are altering tropical ecosystems via unsustainable fisheries, the decline and loss of habitat and fragmentation, Further,pollution is altering an earth already in the throes of climate change.
Tropical Marine Ecologyis anauthoritative and comprehensive introduction to tropical marine ecology for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.It is also a richresource and reference work for researchers and professional managers in marine science.