Marine Ecosystems and Global Change
Manuel Barange, John G. Field, Roger P. Harris, Eileen E. Hofmann, R. Ian Perry, and Francisco Werner
Abstract
Global environmental change, which includes climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources, is having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, and their past, present, and future responses to physical and anthropogenic forcing. The book illustrates how climate and humans impact marine ecosystems by a comprehensive review of the physical and ecological processes that structure marine ecosystems and the observation, experimen ... More
Global environmental change, which includes climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources, is having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, and their past, present, and future responses to physical and anthropogenic forcing. The book illustrates how climate and humans impact marine ecosystems by a comprehensive review of the physical and ecological processes that structure marine ecosystems and the observation, experimentation, and modelling approaches required for their study. Recognizing the interactive roles played by humans in using marine resources and in responding to global changes in marine systems, the book includes chapters on the human dimensions of marine ecosystem changes and on effective management approaches in the era of change. Part IV reviews the state of the art in predicting the responses of marine ecosystems to future global change scenarios. The book provides a synthesis of the work conducted under the auspices of the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) project over the last two decades, as the largest, multi-disciplinary, international effort focused on understanding the impacts of external forcing on the structure and dynamics of global marine ecosystems.
Keywords:
global environmental change,
marine ecosystems,
ecosystem structure and dynamics,
GLOBEC,
climate variability and change,
fishing
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199558025 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558025.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Manuel Barange, editor
Director GLOBEC IPO, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
John G. Field, editor
Director, Marine Research (MA-RE) Insitute, Rondebosch, South Africa
Roger P. Harris, editor
Senior Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
Eileen E. Hofmann, editor
Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
R. Ian Perry, editor
Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo, Canada
Francisco Werner, editor
Director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
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