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Ecology of tropical oceans /
This book breaks new ground with the integration of geography, oceanography, plankton and benthic biology, as well as fish, to present a comprehensive account of the ecology of the tropical ocean. Proceeding from a description of the geomorphology, sediments, and vegetation of tropical continental s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
�1987.
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| Colección: | ICLARM contribution ;
no. 389. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Ecology of Tropical Oceans; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Geography of the Tropical Oceans; Partitioning the Tropical Seas by Region and Latitude Zones; Regional Characteristics of Continental Shelves; Formation and Characteristics of Coastal Lagoons; Geography of Coral Reefs; Coastal Vegetation; Chapter 3. Circulation of Tropical Seas and Oceans; Continental Shelf Processes; Water Masses of Tropical Oceans; Thermohaline and Wind-Driven Circulation; Thermocline Topography and Midocean Divergence
- Eckman Divergence and Other Forms of Coastal UpwellingVariability in the Tropical Ocean; Chapter 4. Biological Communities of Tropical Oceans; Origins of the Tropical Marine Fauna; Tropical Benthic Communities; Communities of Large Mobile Invertebrates; Coral Reef Communities; Communities of Plankton Organisms; Chapter 5. Biological Production: Benthos and Plankton; Measuring Production and Consumption Rates; Ecosystem Trophodynamics: Open Oceans; Ecosystem Trophodynamics: Continental Shelves and Coasts; Chapter 6. Species Assemblages in Tropical Demersal Fisheries
- Demersal Fish of the Continental ShelvesTropical Atlantic Demersal Fish; Indo-Pacific Demersal Fish; Fish of Coral Reefs and Atolls; Tropical Estuarine Fish Assemblages; Chapter 7. Pelagic Fish of Tropical Oceans; Clupeoids of Tropical Seas; Variability of Tropical Clupeoid Stocks; Carangids and Scombroids of Coastal Seas; The Oceanic Scombroid Resource: Tunas and Billfish; Oceanic Sharks; Resources of Small Mesopelagic Fish of the Open Tropical Oceans; Chapter 8. Fish as Components of Marine Ecosystems; Ecosystems of Open Continental Shelves and Estuaries
- Ecosystems of Boulders and Coral ReefsPelagic Ecosystem of the Open Ocean; Chapter 9. Dynamics of Tropical Fish Populations; Overcoming a Mythology; Growth of Fishes; Mortality of Tropical Marine Fishes; Reproduction and Recruitment of Tropical Marine Fishes; Food and Feeding of Tropical Marine Fishes; Chapter 10. Population Biology of Large Marine Invertebrates; Life-History Strategies of Sea Urchins; Recruitment of Penaeid Shrimps; Squids as Components of Tropical Multispecies Systems; References; Author Index; Geographic Index; Taxonomic Index