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, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xxvi, 470 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Michael E. Soule -- Preface / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- Acknowledgments / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- 1. Why marine conservation biology? / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- 2. Back to the future in marine conservation / Larry B. Crowder -- Pt. 1. Marine populations : the basics / Edited by Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse -- 3. The life of the sea : implications of marine population biology to conservation policy / Stephen R. Palumbi and Dennis Hedgecock -- 4. The Allee effect in the sea / Don R. Levitan and Tamara M. McGovern -- 5. Extinction risk in marine species / Ransom A. Myers and C. Andrea Ottensmeyer -- 6. Behavioral approaches to marine conservation / Julia K. Parrish -- Pt. 2. Threats to marine biological diversity / Edited by Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- 7. The potential for nutrient overenrichment to diminish marine biodiversity / Nancy N. Rabalais -- 8. The magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine ecosystems : implications for conservation biology / James T. Carlton and Gregory M. Ruiz -- 9. Diseases and the conservation of marine biodiversity / Kiho Kim, Andy P. Dobson, Frances M. D. Gulland and C. Drew Harvell -- 10. Multiple stressors in marine systems / Denise L. Breitburg and Gerhardt F. Riedel -- Pt. 3. The greatest threat : fisheries / Edited by Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse -- 11. Global fisheries and marine conservation : is coexistence possible? / Dave Preikshot and Daniel Pauly -- 12. The global destruction of bottom habitats by mobile fishing gear / Les Watling -- 13. Effects of fishing on long-lived marine organisms / Selina S. Heppell, Scott A. Heppell, Andrew J. Read and Larry B. Crowder -- 14. Evolutionary impacts of fishing on target populations / Richard Law and Kevin Stokes -- 15. Are sustainable fisheries achievable? / Ray Hilborn -- Pt. 4. Place-based management of marine ecosystems / Edited by Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse -- 16. Marine protected areas and biodiversity conservation / Callum M. Roberts -- 17. Marine reserve function and design for fisheries management / Joshua Sladek Nowlis and Alan Friedlander -- 18. Place-based ecosystem management in the open ocean / Eliott A. Norse, Larry B. Crowder, Kristina Gjerde, David Hyrenbach, Callum M. Roberts, Carl Safina and Michael E. Soule -- 19. Metapopulation structure and marine reserves / Romuald N. Lipcius, Larry B. Crowder and Lance E. Morgan -- Pt. 5. Human dimensions / Edited by Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder -- 20. Developing rules to manage fisheries : a cross-cultural perspective / James M. Acheson -- 21. The role of legal regimes in marine conservation / Alison Rieser, Charlotte Gray Hudson and Stephen E. Roady -- 22. Uncertainty in marine management / Louis W. Botsford and Ana M. Parma -- 23. Recovering populations and restoring ecosystems : restoration of coral reefs and related marine communities / Robert H. Richmond -- 24. Toward a sea ethic / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer -- 25. Ending the range wars on the last frontier : zoning the sea / Elliott A. Norse.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2004029346

OCLC

• ocm57211200
• SCSB-5385249

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries