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The 2015 International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE2015) aims to provide a platform where scholars from different countries can exchange ideas, opinions and views.

The heavily-revised Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Fourth Edition continues its tradition as a state-of-the-art reference that updates the field of marine science to meet the interdisciplinary research needs of physical oceanographers, marine biologists, marine chemists, and marine geologists.

This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera.

Experts are predicting that demand for marine fish oil will soon outstrip supply, creating extreme urgency within the global aquafeed industry to find viable alternatives.

This book presents a comprehensive review of the most recent studies on the impact of contaminants on the marine environment.

Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection.

This book sets out to bridge the order scales among pike researchers, populations, communities, management, and fisheries.

Analyses the biology, ecology and geographical distribution of lime trees, using extensive field data to clarify their notoriously confusing taxonomy.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This book provides a detailed examination of the concentration, form and cycling of trace metals and metalloids through the aquatic biosphere, and has sections dealing with the atmosphere, the ocean, lakes and rivers.

Fish are a unique group which harbour some 30,000 species of helminths that do not occur in other vertebrates.

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.

Increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues continues to create a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing recent research.

Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions.

Biology and Geology of Coral Reefs, Volume I: Geology 1 focuses on the evolution, reef types, geology, and structural and tectonic factors causing the development of coral reefs.

The anatomy of water, water as a substance, water as a medium, the principles of the hydrologic cycle, the economics of water, and challenges are all covered in the first chapter of this book.

A How-To Guide for Conducting Common Fisheries-Related Analyses in RIntroductory Fisheries Analyses with R provides detailed instructions on performing basic fisheries stock assessment analyses in the R environment.

The 2015 International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE2015) aims to provide a platform where scholars from different countries can exchange ideas, opinions and views.

This book examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters.

Organic Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment draws from the author's experience with a variety of problems dealing with the fate, distribution, and toxicity of organic compounds in the aquatic environment.

The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study.

In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism's phenotype.

Maria Sala introduced experimental and field-based studies on soil and fluvial processes in Spain during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions.

Biology of Marine Birds provides the only complete summary of information about marine birds ever published.

The presence of concentrations of organic substances and cations in sea water is a matter of increasing concern to the water industry, environmentalists and the general public alike.

Damselfishes (Pomacentridae) are highly conspicuous, diurnal inhabitants of mainly reef areas, capturing the attention of many scientists.

Recent Advances in the Analysis of Marine Toxins, Volume 78, the newest release in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, presents chapters from the best authors in the field, making it an essential resource.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increasingly appreciated as down-stream effectors of cellular damage and dysfunction under natural and anthropogenic stress scenarios in aquatic systems.

Over the past few years, it has become more and more obvious that fish farming will become increasingly important in the future.

This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry.

Unique, global overview of the future effects of climate change and human impact on the world''s aquatic ecosystems.

Ecology of Coastal Waters with Implications for Management, Second Edition is the most up-to-date book available on coastal marine ecosystems.

This special volume of Advances in Marine Biology covers in detail the biology of calanoid copepods.

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.

Food proteins and bioactive peptides play a vital role in the growth and development of the body s structural integrity and regulation, as well as having a variety of other functional properties.

Annual Fishes: Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution is the first comprehensive reference on current knowledge of diverse species that exhibit unique survival strategies and provide important models for basic and applied research.

Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify.

This comprehensive volume provides a plethora of first-hand information on the diversity, biology, and ecology of edible marine bivalve molluscs.

Social, economic, political, business, and cultural environmental factors affect the international marketing operation and performance of international firms.

The New Naturalist editors believe this to be the greatest general work on the subject ever written.

'Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate.

Key features:Captures the historic context and recent developments in science and policy arenas that address the potential for coastal wetlands to be considered as significant contributors to carbon sequestrationLinks multiple levels of science (biogeochemistry, geomorphology, paleoclimate, etc.

A comprehensive, clear, and detailed guide to procedures for conducting marine ecological field studies Marine Ecological Field Methods is a comprehensive resource that offers the most relevant sampling methodologies for quantitative and qualitative studies of mesopelagic, demersal, littoral, and soft-bottom organisms, as well as relevant physical parameters.

AAP Prose Award Finalist 2018/19For three decades, this book has been acknowledged as the most respected scientific reference specifically devoted to marine mammal medicine and health.

A diverse account of how life exists in extreme environments and these systems'' susceptibility and resilience to climate change.

Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.

In the past 20 years, fish cytogenetics has become an essential tool in fields as diverse as systematics and evolution, conservation, aquaculture and more recently, genomics.

For years scientists viewed the deep sea as calm, quiet, and undisturbed, with marine species existing in an ecologically stable and uniform environment.