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Changing States and Sustainability
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Edited By
H.R. Skjoldal, Senior Scientist and Research Director, Institute of Marine Research, P.O. Box 1870, Nordnes, N5817 Bergen, Norway
K. Sherman, Narragansett Laboratory and Office of Marine Ecosystem Studies, NOAA-NMFS, Narragansett, RI, USA
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Description
This is the first book to provide assessments of multidecadal changes in resources and environments of the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs)
of the North Atlantic. Using the case study method, researchers examine the forces driving the changes and actions underway aimed at
turning the corner from declining trends in biomass yields, toward recovery of depleted species populations and improvements in ecosystem
integrity.
Recently a distinguished group of 24 scientists argued eloquently that a new Sustainability Science was emerging
that was focused on "meeting fundamental human needs while preserving the life support systems of planet Earth". The contributions contained
in this volume are at the cutting edge of Sustainability Science and the results presented by the contributors are pertinent
to one of the core questions: "How are long-term trends in environment and development, including consumption and population, reshaping
nature-society interactions in ways relevant to sustainability?" (Science Vol. 292, 27 April 2001). The case studies demonstrate the utility of an ecosystem-based approach to the assessment and management of biomass yields and species sustainability.
Movements
toward ecosystem-based management have emerged from the case studies on the initiation of recoveries of several depleted groundfish stocks
of the US Northeast Shelf LME; the collapse of the Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf cod; the assessment of physical and biological changes
on the Scotian Shelf, West Greenland Shelf, Iceland Shelf LME, and the Faroe Plateau, the North Sea, and the Barents Sea LMEs. Uncertainties,
with regard to environmental and human-generated forcing, are addressed in assessment of the states of the Iberian Coastal and Biscay-Celtic
LMEs, and in broad-scale studies of the influences at the base of the food chain of climatic variability on the productivity and biodiversity
of plankton communities of the North Atlantic. The volume concludes with an insightful perspective on the approaches used and the results
reported by the eminent marine scientist and former President of ICES, Professor Gotthilf Hempel.
Audience
This book will be of interest to marine scientists, resource managers, stewardship agencies, research institutions and laboratories, the
academic community, commercial interests, conservation groups, and the environmentally-concerned public at large.
Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Contributors.
I. North Atlantic Teleconnections.
1. North Atlantic climatic signals and
the plankton of the European continental shelf (A.H. Taylor).
2. Interregional biological responses in the North Atlantic to hydrometeorological
forcing (P.C. Reid, G. Beaugrand).
II. Northwest Atlantic Large Marine Ecosystems.
3. Changes to the large marine
ecosystem of the Newfoundland-Labrador shelf (J. Rice).
4. Decadal changes in the Scotian shelf large marine ecosystem (K.C.T. Zwanenburg, et al.).
5. Dynamics of fish larvae, zooplankton, and hydrographical characteristics in the West Greenland large marine ecosystem
1950-1984 (S.A. Pedersen, J.C. Rice).
6. The U.S. northeast shelf large marine ecosystem: zooplankton trends in fish biomass recovery
(K. Sherman, et al.).
III. Insular North Atlantic.
7. Iceland shelf large marine ecosystem: decadal assessment
and resource sustainability (O.S. Astthorsson, H. Vilhjálmsson).
8. Ecological features and recent trends in the physical environment,
plankton, fish stocks, and seabirds in the Faroe shelf ecosystem (E. Gaard, et al.).
IV. Northeast Atlantic.
9. Zooplankton-fish interactions in the Barents Sea (P. Dalpadado, et al.).
10. Dynamics and human impact in the Bay of Biscay:
an ecological perspective (L. Valdés, A. Lavin).
11. Iberian sardine fisheries: trends and crises (T. Wyatt, C. Porteiro).
12.
The North Sea large marine ecosystem (J.M. McGlade).
V. Summary and Comments.
13. Changing states of the large marine
ecosystems in the North Atlantic: summary and comments (G. Hempel).
Index.
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Hardbound, 464 pages, publication date: APR-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51011-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-51011-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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