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ELSEVIER Elements Of Marine Ecology 5th Edition by Frances Dipper
Elements of Marine Ecology, Fifth Edition focuses on marine ecology as a coherent science, providing undergraduate students with an essential foundation of knowledge in the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. The text reflects ecological groupings such as the pelagic lifestyle vs. the benthic lifestyle. In addition, background oceanographic material, previously in various chapters, is consolidated in the first chapter. The broad definition of ecology is the study of organisms in relation to their surroundings. This book presents marine ecology as a coherent science, providing undergraduate students with an essential foundation of knowledge in the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems.This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's courses and now includes worldwide examples, all thoroughly updated with brand new chapters. Table of contents :-1. The physical structure of oceans2. The seawater environment3. Measuring, sampling and exploration4. Organic production and cycling in the sea5. Open water lifestyles: Marine plankton 6. Open water lifestyles: Marine nekton7. Benthic living: The Seashore8. Benthic living: sublittoral seabed9. Human impacts 1: Sea Fisheries10. Human impacts 2: problems, mitigation and conservation