Marine biology

Key Features The most comprehensive resource available on the biodiversity of algal species, their industrial production processes and their use for human consumption in food, health and varied applications.

This volume is dedicated to an in-depth discussion of the biochemical ecology of marine fishes.

Research in modern experimental and theoretical population genetics has been strengthened by advances in molecular techniques for the analysis of genetic variability.

Bivalve Molluscs is an extremely comprehensive book covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates.

This book reviews up-to-date knowledge on the biology of sole (Solea senegalensis and S.

This book covers the biology, ecology, genetics and aquaculture of the Asian Seabass or barramundi (Lates calcarifer), a commercially and recreationally valuable species.

Seabirds are global travellers connecting oceans and seas all over the world, and facing multiple threats at local and global scales.

The SCOR (Scientific Committee on Ocean Research of ICSU) Working Group 106 was tasked with reviewing the geomorphic, sedimentary and oceanographic dynamics of muddy costs, assessing the impact of sea level rise on muddy coasts, especially in estuaries, and to recommend future research pathways relating to muddy coasts.

This book provides the latest comprehensive methods for isolation and other novel techniques for marine product development.

The 26 recognized minor phyla comprise aberrant clades, as most of them terminate as blind offshoots.

Does a change, which affects a few biological macro-molecules, some cells, or a few individuals within a population, have any ecological significance that would allow the prediction of deleterious effects at higher levels of biological organization, namely the population, community, and ultimately the ecosystem?

This important publication provides, for the first time, a comprehensive review of knowledge of reproductive seasonality in teleosts.

This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004.

This 12 volume encyclopedia contains 160 chapters covering a broad range of topics related to marine biology.

The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of high-throughput sequencing, single cell genomics and analysis of large datasets.

The purposes of the present dictionary are to define the osteological and taxonomic terms referring to fishes, and to explain the rationale, both anatomical and function, of fish skeletal units, in an evolutionary and biological context.

This book discusses the sources, mechanism, impact and abatement of pollution in waterbodies and lays a base foundation for further research.

Increased industrialization and urbanization has polluted the marine environment, the largest ecosystem.

Crustaceans adapt to a wide variety of habitats and ways of life.

This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms.

The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology, collecting up-to-date research into an easy-to-access single textbook.

Advances in Marine Biology

The culmination of over a decade's worth of research by the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture not only explains the physical, chemical, and biological processes that interact in pond culture systems, but also presents real-world research findings and considers the people who depend on these systems.

This volume comprises the proceedings of a symposium on marine mammal survey assessment methods, which took place in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Bioremediation, the use of microorganisms to degrade, sequester, or remove environmental contaminants, is an urgent need of our planet for protection and restoration from toxic contaminants.

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae.

Marine systems face a multitude of anthropogenic stressors such as climate change, recreational and commercial fishing, aquaculture practices, pollution, and coastal urbanization.

Advances in Marine Biology

Climate change has emerged as the most pressing global challenge of the 21st century and it has a dramatic effect on natural ecosystems and environment.

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the respiratory structures of Paleozoic blastozoan echinoderms.

A global blue economy is an economic arena that depends on the benefits and values realized from the coastal and marine environments.

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other MindsAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.

This book, Extremophiles: General and Plant Biomass Based Biorefinery, explores the potential of extremophiles in industries and biomass based biorefinery.

Organisms, both aquatic and terrestrial, are sources of a wide variety of substances, many of which have already been shown to be bioactive.

Dynamic Aquaria is the outgrowth of years of research aimed at studying how to accurately model and construct living ecosystems in mesocosms, microcosms, and aquaria.

Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems.

Interest in oceanography and marine biology and the relevance of those fields to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews that summarize recent research.

Advances in Marine Biology

A practical, step-by-step guide to rearing freshwater mussels, one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the world.

This book reviews the need for marine conservation, summarizes general measures for ocean and coastal conservation, and explains the rationale for establishing marine protected areas.

The proceedings of the Seventh International Echinoderm Conference, held at Atami, Japan, September 1990.

The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.

Climate change is having an increasing impact on coastal, estuarine, and marine environments worldwide.

This book provides comprehensive coverage on current trends in marine omics of various relevant topics such as genomics, lipidomics, proteomics, foodomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutrigenomics, pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics as related to and applied to marine biotechnology, molecular biology, marine biology, marine microbiology, environmental biotechnology, environmental science, aquaculture, pharmaceutical science and bioprocess engineering.

This book covers the major polluting chemicals affecting fisheries in European fresh waters and the effort required to extend the work towards the preparation of critical reviews on less important chemicals would be out of proportion to the benefits obtained.

Scientists and engineers embarking on their first voyage for oceanographic or meteorological research are often unprepared for the experience.

An understanding of gonorynchiform morphology and systematic inter- and intra-relationships has proven vital to a better understanding of the evolution of lower teleosts in general, and more specifically of groups such as the clupeiforms (e.

A broad, clear introductory textbook on chemical oceanography for undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers.