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Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Their Role in Monitoring and Management
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Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Their Role in Monitoring and Management Hardcover - 2006

by I. L. Boyd (Editor); S. Wanless (Editor); C. J. Camphuysen


From the publisher

The sustainable exploitation of the marine environment depends upon our capacity to develop systems of management with predictable outcomes. Unfortunately, marine ecosystems are highly dynamic and this property could conflict with the objective of sustainable exploitation. This book investigates the theory that the population and behavioural dynamics of predators at the upper end of marine food chains can be used to assist with management. Since these species integrate the dynamics of marine ecosystems across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, they offer new sources of information that can be formally used in setting management objectives. This book examines the current advances in the understanding of the ecology of marine predators and will investigate how information from these species could be used in management.

First line

Marine ecosystems represent a rich assemblage of co-evolved species that have complex, non-linear dynamics.

Details

  • Title Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Their Role in Monitoring and Management
  • Author I. L. Boyd (Editor); S. Wanless (Editor); C. J. Camphuysen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date June 12, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521847735 / 0521847737
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.91 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Marine ecology, Marine ecosystem management
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006298209
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.916