Research Catalog

Title

Marine conservation biology : the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity / edited by Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder ; foreword by Michael E. Soulé.

Publication

Washington : Island Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Norse, Elliott A.
• Crowder, Larry B.

Description

xxvi, 470 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Marine biodiversity conservation
• Biodiversité marine > Conservation
• Marine Biology
• Biodiversity
• Conservation of Natural Resources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Why marine conservation biology? / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- Back to the future in marine conservation / Larry B. Crowder -- pt. 1. Marine populations : the basics / Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse. The life of the sea : implications of marine population biology to conservation policy / Stephen R. Palumbi and Dennis Hedgecock ; The Allee effect in the sea / Don R. Levitan and Tamara M. McGovern ; Extinction risk in marine species / Ransom A. Meyers and C. Andrea Ottensmeyer ; Behavioral approaches to marine conservation / Julia K. Parrish -- pt. 2. Threats to marine biological diversity / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder. The potential for nutrient overenrichment to diminish marine biodiversity / Nancy N. Rabalais ; The magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine ecosystems : implications for conservation biology / James T. Carlton and Gregory M. Ruiz ; Diseases and the conservation of marine biodiversity / Kiho Kim ... [et al.] ; Multiple stessors in marine systems / Denise L. Breitburg and Gerhardt F. Riedel -- pt. 3. The greatest threat : fisheries / Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse. Global fisheries and marine conservation : is coexistence possible? / Dave Preikshot and Daniel Pauly ; The global destruction of bottom habitats by mobile fishing gear / Les Watling ; Effects of fishing on long-lived marine organisms / Selina S. Heppell ... [et al.] ; Evolutionary impacts of fishing on target populations / Richard Law and Kevin Stokes ; Are sustainable fisheries achievable? / Ray Hilborn -- pt. 4. Place-based management of marine ecosystems / Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse. Marine protected areas and biodiversity conservation/ Callum M. Roberts ; Marine reserve function and design for fisheries management / Joshua Sladek Nowlis and Alan Friedlander ; Placed-based ecosystem management in the open ocean / Elliott A. Norse ... [et al.] ; Metapopulation structure and marine reserves / Romuald N. Lipcius, Larry B. Crowder, and Lance E. Morgan -- pt. 5. Human dimensions / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder. Developing rules to manage fisheries : a cross-cultural perspective / James M. Acheson ; The role of legal regimes in marine conservation / Alison Rieser, Charlotte Gray Hudson, and Stephen E. Roady ; Uncertainty in marine management / Louis W. Botsford and Ana M. Parma ; Recovering populations and restoring ecosystems : restoration of coral reefs and related marine communities / Robert H. Richmond ; Toward a sea ethic / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer ; Ending the range wars on the last frontier : zoning the sea / Elliott A. Norse.

Call Number

JSF 07-465

ISBN

• 1559636610 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781559636612 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1559636629 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781559636629 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004029346

OCLC

57211200

Title

Marine conservation biology : the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity / edited by Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder ; foreword by Michael E. Soulé.

Imprint

Washington : Island Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Norse, Elliott A.

Crowder, Larry B.

Research Call Number

JSF 07-465