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Ecology of Marine Sediments : From Science to Management.
Marine sediments are the second largest habitat on earth and yet are poorly understood. This book gives a broad coverage of the central topics in the ecology of soft sediments. - ;Marine sediments provide the largest habitat on planet earth, yet knowledge of the structure and function of their flora...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; A tribute to John Stuart Gray (1941-2007); Introduction; 1 Sampling sediments; 2 The sediment and related environmental factors; 3 Describing assemblages of sediment-living organisms; 4 Diversity; 5 Functional diversity of benthic assemblages; 6 Spatial variations in sediment systems; 7 Temporal variations in benthic assemblages; 8 Human impacts on soft-sediment systems--trawling and fisheries; 9 Human impacts on soft-sediment systems--pollution; 10 The soft-sediment benthos in the ecosystem; 11 The benthos in the management of marine sediments; References and Further Reading; Index.