Biological Oceanography: An Introduction, Third Edition is a completely updated version of a classic undergraduate textbook. This new edition offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography and also provides an enhanced learning experience with numerous illustrations, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments at the back of the book. The comprehensive coverage of this book focuses on communicating the importance of the ocean for Earth's habitability. This includes a revised focus on the anthropogenic impacts on oceans using the latest research on human-ocean interactions, as well as new and revised chapters highlighting this relationship and the importance of the ocean to human survival. Additional new material includes a description of the operations of a typical research ship and appendices with maps, units of measurement, and conversion. Enhances learning opportunities with questions and answers, conversion and unit charts along with maps and colour images Introduces students to the oceans and marine organisms, and the importance of these organisms, including microbes which have not yet been fully covered in any other marine biology texts Presents a look to the future, with challenges ahead, but also shows the issues that have been solved by science so far (ozone hole, acid rain) INDICE: 1. The Ocean makes Earth Habitable Water 2. The abiotic environment 3. Marine environments and their drivers 4. Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography 5. Primary production 6. Secondary production and trophic transfer 7. The biogeochemical footprint of ocean biology 8. What about me? Ocean Biology and the human species 9. Ocean biology and climate change 10. Challenges ahead Appendices: Units, Conversions, Maps Problems with answers A day on a research ship
- ISBN: 978-0-08-102574-1
- Editorial: Elsevier Science
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2023
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés