CRC Marine Science
About the Book Series
The CRC Marine Science Series provides state-of-the-art coverage of important topics in marine biology, marine chemistry, marine geology, and physical oceanography. The series includes volumes that synthesize recent advances in marine science. It will be of interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike as well as scientists and managers engaged in the study of the marine biosphere.
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Climate Change and Estuaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. Kennish, Hans W. Paerl, Joseph R. Crosswell
September 15, 2023
Climate change is having an increasing impact on coastal, estuarine, and marine environments worldwide. This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of climate change effects on estuarine ecosystems from local, regional, and global perspectives. With editors among the most noted international ...
Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. Kennish, Hans W. Paerl
June 16, 2017
Dynamic and productive ecosystems, coastal lagoons play an important role in local economies and often bear the brunt of coastal development, agricultural, and urban waste, overuse from fisheries, aquaculture, transportation, energy production, and other human activities. The features that make ...
Ecology of Marine Bivalves: An Ecosystem Approach, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Richard F. Dame
November 03, 2011
Bivalve mollusks are roughly hand-sized animals that can aggregate into large groups of millions of individuals as reefs—pumping and filtering enough water in short periods of time to control the processes on the reef and adjacent tidal waters—and serve as valuable indicators and monitors of ...
Restoration of Aquatic Systems
1st Edition
By Robert J. Livingston
July 11, 2005
Simplistic thinking would have us believe that by eliminating the loading of a given pollutant, an aquatic system will revert to its previous pristine state. This premise is without scientific verification. Besides the fact that typically very little documentation exists defining what exactly that ...
Trophic Organization in Coastal Systems
1st Edition
By Robert J. Livingston
December 23, 2002
Derived from an unprecedented research effort covering over 70 field years of field data in a series of studies, Trophic Organization in Coastal Systems represents an alternative approach to coastal research that has been successfully applied to coastal resource management issues. This unique book ...
Marine Chemical Ecology
1st Edition
Edited
By James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker
June 13, 2001
The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science. It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with developments in underwater technology. With its up-to-date subject reviews by experts, Marine Chemical Ecology is the ...
The Ecology of Seashores
1st Edition
By George A. Knox
December 21, 2000
The Ecology of Seashores explores the complex shore environment. It covers the ways in which representative species have adapted to life in a constantly changing environment in terms of their interactions, the control of community structure, and how energy and materials are cycled in different ...
Eutrophication Processes in Coastal Systems: Origin and Succession of Plankton Blooms and Effects on Secondary Production in Gulf Coast Estuaries
1st Edition
By Robert J. Livingston
November 27, 2000
Derived from an unprecedented research effort covering over 31 years in a series of studies of 7 major river-estuaries, Eutrophication Processes in Coastal Systems presents a comprehensive and current review of the nature of the eutrophication process and how short- and long-term nutrient loading ...
Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits
1st Edition
Edited
By David Spencer Cronan
November 24, 1999
This handbook summarizes the main advances in our understanding of marine minerals and concentrates on the deposits of proven economic potential. In cases where our knowledge may be too limited to allow defining of their economic potential, those minerals are covered regionally or by deposit type...
The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume I
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter L. Lutz, John A. Musick
December 09, 1996
Sea turtles have existed for millions of years, making them fascinating subjects of study. In the last 20 years, the science of sea turtle biology has expanded at an exponential rate, leading to major advances in many areas. This book synthesizes the results of these advances and focuses on how ...
Environmental Oceanography
2nd Edition
By Tom Beer
November 11, 1996
The second edition of Environmental Oceanography is the first textbook to link the needs of the coastal oceanographer and the environmental practitioner. The ever-increasing human impact on the environment, and particularly on the coastal zone, has led governments to carefully examine the ...
Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae
1st Edition
By Larry McEdward
May 15, 1995
This is the first book to provide a detailed treatment of the field of larval ecology. The 13 chapters use state-of-the-art reviews and critiques of nearly all of the major topics in this diverse and rapidly growing field. Topics include: patterns of larval diversityreproductive energeticsspawning ...