Marine Biology
Function, Biodiversity, Ecology
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 4 December 2008
- ISBN 9780195326949
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 282x222x27 mm
- Weight 1581 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 106 halftones, 313 line illustrations 0
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Jeffrey S. Levinton's highly acclaimed Marine Biology is regarded by many as the most authoritative text for undergraduate marine biology courses. Characterized by exceptionally clear and conversational writing style and comprehensive coverage, the text offers a sophisticated presentation featuring organismal and ecosystem ecology topics from an evolutionary perspective. Over the course of two editions, Levinton has balanced his organismal and ecological focus by including
the latest developments from the world of molecular biology and presenting more discussion of oceanic processes.
This thoroughly revised third edition includes the latest research developments in a new four-color format. It provides increased coverage of molecular biology and physical oceanography; greater emphasis on human impacts on the oceans, fisheries, and global climate change; new coverage of deep sea biology and polar oceans; additional quantitative material interwoven in the text, examples, and end of chapter problems; and highlights on current research efforts in the field.
Table of Contents:
I. Principles of Oceanography and Marine Biology
1. Sounding the Deep
2. The Oceanic Environment
3. Ecological and Evolutionary Principles
II. Marine Organisms: Function and Environment
4. The Chemical and Physical Environment
5. Life in a Fluid Medium
6. Reproduction, Dispersal, and Migration
III. Organisms of the Open Sea
7. The Water Column: Plankton
8. The Water Column: Nekton
IV. Processes in the Open Sea
9. Critical Factors in Plankton Abundance
10. Productivity in the Sea
V. Organisms of the Sea Bed
11. The Diversity of Benthic Marine Invertebrates
12. Seaweeds, Sea Grasses, and Benthic Microorganisms
13. Benthic Life Habits
VI. Coastal Benthic Environments
14. The Tidelands: Rocky Shores, Soft-Substratum Shores, Marshes, Mangroves, and Estuaries
15. Sea Grass Beds, Kelp Forests, Rocky Reefs, and Coral Reefs
VIII. Processes on the Sea Bed, from the Shelf to the Deep Sea
16. From the Continental Shelf to the Deep Sea
17. Biodiversity and Conservation of the Ocean
VIII. Human Impact on the Sea
18. Food from the Sea
19. Marine Pollution
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