Marine Conservation Biology The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity

Name: Marine Conservation Biology The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity
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ISBN: 9781559636629

ISBN-10: 1559636629

ISBN-13: 9781559636629

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Elliott A. Norse, Larry B. Crowder, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Michael E. Soulï¿½, Michael E. Soulï¿½

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Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography and fisheries biology have largely ignored issues of conservation. Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues.…

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List price: $64.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 5/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.860
Language: English

Karen L. McLeod is the Director of Science for the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) at Oregon State University. Heather M. Leslie is the Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at Brown University.



Foreword



Preface



Acknowledgments




Why marine conservation biology?




Back to the future in marine conservation




Marine populations : the basics



The life of the sea : implications of marine population biology to conservation policy




The Allee effect in the sea




Extinction risk in marine species




Behavioral approaches to marine conservation




Threats to marine biological diversity



The potential for nutrient overenrichment to diminish marine biodiversity




The magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine ecosystems : implications for conservation biology




Diseases and the conservation of marine biodiversity




Multiple stressors in marine systems




The greatest threat : fisheries



Global fisheries and marine conservation : is coexistence possible?




The global destruction of bottom habitats by mobile fishing gear




Effects of fishing on long-lived marine organisms




Evolutionary impacts of fishing on target populations




Are sustainable fisheries achievable?




Place-based management of marine ecosystems



Marine protected areas and biodiversity conservation




Marine reserve function and design for fisheries management




Place-based ecosystem management in the open ocean




Metapopulation structure and marine reserves




Human dimensions



Developing rules to manage fisheries : a cross-cultural perspective




The role of legal regimes in marine conservation




Uncertainty in marine management




Recovering populations and restoring ecosystems : restoration of coral reefs and related marine communities




Toward a sea ethic