Life in the world's oceans : diversity, distribution, and abundance /
Census of Marine Life (Program)
McIntyre, A. D.
Chichester ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub.,
2010.
"Census of Marine Life."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Oceans past -- Marine animal populations: a new look back in time -- Part II: Oceans present - geographic realms -- Surveying nearshore biodiversity -- Biodiversity knowledge and its application in the Gulf of Maine area -- Coral reef biodiversity -- New perceptions of continental margin biodiversity -- Biodiversite patterns and processes on the Mid-Atlantic range -- Life on seamounts -- Diversity of abyssal marine life -- Biogeography, ecology, and vulnerability of chemosynthetic ecosystems in the deep sea -- Marine life in the Arctic -- Marine life in the Antarctic -- Part III: Oceans present - global distributions -- A global census of marine microbes -- A census of zooplankton of the global ocean -- Part IV: Oceans present - animal movements -- Tracking fish movements and survival on the Northwest Pacific shelf -- A view of the ocean from Pacific predators -- Part V: Oceans future -- The future of marina animal populations -- Part VI: Using the data -- Data integration: the ocean biogeographic information system.
Census of Marine Life (Program)
Marine animals.
Marine ecology.
Biodiversity.
Zoological surveys.
Oceanography.