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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (497 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781597267717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marine Conservation BiologyDDC classification:
  • 333.95/616
LOC classification:
  • QH91.8.B6 M37 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: A New Science for a New Century -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Why Marine Conservation Biology? -- Ch. 2: Back to the Future in Marine Conservation -- Part One: Marine Populations: The Basics -- Ch. 3: The Life of the Sea: Implications of Marine Population Biology to Conservation Policy -- Ch. 4: The Allee Effect in the Sea -- Ch. 5: Extinction Risk in Marine Species -- Ch. 6: Behavioral Approaches to Marine Conservation -- Part Two: Threats to Marine Biological Diversity -- Ch. 7: The Potential for Nutrient Overenrichment to Diminish Marine Biodiversity -- Ch. 8: The Magnitude and Consequences of Bioinvasions in Marine Ecosystems: Implications for Conservation Biology -- Ch. 9: Diseases and the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity -- Ch. 10: Multiple Stressors in Marine Systems -- Part Three: The Greatest Threat: Fisheries -- Ch. 11: Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Is Coexistence Possible? -- Ch. 12: The Global Destruction of Bottom Habitats by Mobile Fishing Gear -- Ch. 13: Effects of Fishing on Long-Lived Marine Organisms -- Ch. 14: Evolutionary Impacts of Fishing on Target Populations -- Ch. 15: Are Sustainable Fisheries Achievable? -- Part Four: Place-Based Management of Marine Ecosystems -- Ch. 16: Marine Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation -- Ch. 17: Marine Reserve Function and Design for Fisheries Management -- Ch. 18: Place-Based Ecosystem Management in the Open Ocean -- Ch. 19: Metapopulation Structure and Marine Reserves -- Part Five: Human Dimensions -- Ch. 20: Developing Rules to Manage Fisheries: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Ch. 21: The Role of Legal Regimes in Marine Conservation -- Ch. 22: Uncertainty in Marine Management.
Ch. 23: Recovering Populations and Restoring Ecosystems: Restoration of Coral Reefs and Related Marine Communities -- Ch. 24: Toward a Sea Ethic -- Ch. 25: Ending the Range Wars on the Last Frontier: Zoning the Sea -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index -- Species Index.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: A New Science for a New Century -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Why Marine Conservation Biology? -- Ch. 2: Back to the Future in Marine Conservation -- Part One: Marine Populations: The Basics -- Ch. 3: The Life of the Sea: Implications of Marine Population Biology to Conservation Policy -- Ch. 4: The Allee Effect in the Sea -- Ch. 5: Extinction Risk in Marine Species -- Ch. 6: Behavioral Approaches to Marine Conservation -- Part Two: Threats to Marine Biological Diversity -- Ch. 7: The Potential for Nutrient Overenrichment to Diminish Marine Biodiversity -- Ch. 8: The Magnitude and Consequences of Bioinvasions in Marine Ecosystems: Implications for Conservation Biology -- Ch. 9: Diseases and the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity -- Ch. 10: Multiple Stressors in Marine Systems -- Part Three: The Greatest Threat: Fisheries -- Ch. 11: Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Is Coexistence Possible? -- Ch. 12: The Global Destruction of Bottom Habitats by Mobile Fishing Gear -- Ch. 13: Effects of Fishing on Long-Lived Marine Organisms -- Ch. 14: Evolutionary Impacts of Fishing on Target Populations -- Ch. 15: Are Sustainable Fisheries Achievable? -- Part Four: Place-Based Management of Marine Ecosystems -- Ch. 16: Marine Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation -- Ch. 17: Marine Reserve Function and Design for Fisheries Management -- Ch. 18: Place-Based Ecosystem Management in the Open Ocean -- Ch. 19: Metapopulation Structure and Marine Reserves -- Part Five: Human Dimensions -- Ch. 20: Developing Rules to Manage Fisheries: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Ch. 21: The Role of Legal Regimes in Marine Conservation -- Ch. 22: Uncertainty in Marine Management.

Ch. 23: Recovering Populations and Restoring Ecosystems: Restoration of Coral Reefs and Related Marine Communities -- Ch. 24: Toward a Sea Ethic -- Ch. 25: Ending the Range Wars on the Last Frontier: Zoning the Sea -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index -- Species Index.

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