Waters in peril
By: edited by Leah Bendell-Young and Patricia Gallaugher.
Contributors: Bendell-Young, Leah, 1942-; Gallaugher, Patricia, 1958-
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Norwell, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Marine ecology; Endangered ecosystems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I - BIODIVERSITY; title: Chapter 1: Biological Invasions of Marine Ecosystems: Patterns,; title: Effects, and Management3; title: Gregory M. Ruiz and Jeffrey A. Crooks; title: Chapter 2: Known and Unknown Biodiversity, Risk of Extinction; title: and Conservation Strategy in The Sea19; title: Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla; title: Chapter 3: Deep-Sea Fisheries: Perspectives and Lessons35; title: Richard L. Haedrich; title: Chapter 4: Fishing Down Marine Food Webs: An Update47; title: Daniel Pauly and Maria Lourdes D. Palomares; title: Chapter 5: Ecological Implications of the Shellfishery;; title: A Case Study on the West Coast of; title: British Columbia, Canada57; title: Leah I. Bendell- Young and Ron C. Ydenberg; title: PART II - MARINE ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; title: Chapter 6: The Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle: A Double-Edged Agent; title: of Environmental Change?73; title: Louis A. Codispoti; title: Chapter 7: Beyond Algal Blooms, Oxygen Deficits and Fish Kills:; title: Chronic, Long-Term Impacts of Nutrient Pollution; title: on Aquatic Ecosystems103; title: JoAnn M. Burkholder; title: Chapter 8: Responses of Pelagic Marine Ecosystems to; title: Climate Change - Can We Predict Them?127; title: Kenneth L. Denman; title: Chapter 9: The Arctic Ocean and Contaminants:; title: Pathways that Lead to Us135; title: Robie W Macdonald; title: Chapter 10: Shouldn't We Be Putting Our Sulphide-Rich Mine; title: Tailings in the Ocean or in Lakes Rather than on Land?151; title: Thomas F Pedersen; title: PART III - TOWARDS SOLUTIONS; title: Chapter 11: The Cumulative Effects of Climate Warming and; title: Other Human Stresses on Canadian Freshwaters; title: in the New M illennium165; title: David W Schindler; title: Chapter 12: Marine Biological Diversity: Conserving Life in the; title: Neglected Ninety-nine Percent187; title: Elliott A. Norse; title: Chapter 13: Human Ecology, Material Consumption, and the Sea:; title: Indices of Human Ecological Dysfunction201; title: William E. Rees; title: Chapter 14: Prevention is Better Than Cure: Systems of 'No-Take'; title: Marine Reserves221; title: Bill Ballantine; title: Index233.