Description: A study of coral reefs is of great theoretical and practical importance in biology, geology, ecology, and for understanding the history of ocean basins and seacoasts. As a biological formation, the reef represents one of the rare natural marine ecosystem models with the highest biological productivity. Contemporary reef systems exert an extremely important influence on the overall biological control of the World Ocean. Coral reefs have been recognized as one of the richest natural ecosystems and could be considered a prototype of a highly productive marine economy.
Description: This text introduces marine ecology to undergraduate students in biology, zoology, ecology, environment science, natural resources management, marine science and fisheries programmes.
Description: Although much of the theory and methodology has changed little in the decade since the first edition of this book, attitudes to overfishing and fisheries management have altered considerably. Stock assessment work has become more evenly spread around the world, and is no longer confined to northern temperate waters with its emphasis on the single species fisheries. This edition has been revised to include chapters on penaeid prawns which support valuable fisheries in many tropical areas, the collapse and expansion of some species of shoaling pelagic fish and the recovery of stocks of marine mammals which had been depleted by heavy exploitation. The author also examines the degree to which stock assessment scientists have been able to provide advice for managers, and suggests ways in which performance might be improved in the future.
