Marine Metapopulations
Description
Key Features
- First book to systematically apply metapopulation theory directly to marine systems
- Contributions from leading international ecologists and fisheries biologists
- Perspectives on a broad array of marine organisms and ecosystems, from coastal estuaries to shallow reefs to deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- Critical science for improved management of marine resources
- Paves the way for future research on large-scale spatial ecology of marine systems
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Merging of Metapopulation Theory and Marine Ecology: Establishing the Historical Context
Part II: Fishes
Chapter 2: The Metapopulation Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes
Chapter 3: Temperate Rocky Reef Fishes
Chapter 4: Estuarine and Diadromous Fish Metapopulations
Part III: Invertebrates
Chapter 5: Metapopulation Dynamics of Hard Corals
Chapter 6: Population and Spatial Structure of Two Common Temperate Reef Herbivores: Abalone and Sea Urchins
Chapter 7: Rocky Intertidal Invertebrates: The Potential for Metapopulations within and among Shores
Chapter 8: Metapopulation Dynamics of Coastal Decapods
Chapter 9: A Metapopulation Approach to Interpreting Diversity at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Part IV: Plants and Algae
Chapter 10: A Metapopulation Perspective on the Patch Dynamics of Giant Kelp in Southern California
Chapter 11: Seagrasses and the Metapopulation Concept: Developing a Regional Approach to the Study of Extinction, Colonization, and Dispersal
Part V: Perspectives
Chapter 12: Conservation Dynamics of Marine Metapopulations with Dispersing Larvae
Chapter 13: Genetic Approaches to Understanding Marine Metapopulation Dynamics
Chapter 14: Metapopulation Dynamics and Community Ecology of Marine Systems
Chapter 15: Metapopulation Ecology and Marine Conservation
Chapter 16: The Future of Metapopulation Science in Marine Ecology
Product details
- No. of pages: 576
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2006
- Published: April 6, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780120887811
- eBook ISBN: 9780080454719