Books in the CRC Marine Science series

Based on longitudinal studies-some into their fifth decade-of colonial waterbirds, this book provides a clear picture of the corrosive effects of heavy metals in the aquatic environment today. Colonial-nesting birds can serve as excellent bioindicators and sentinels for both human and ecological health. This book takes a food-web, ecosystem appr

This book is a synthesis of recent thinking and results from practitioners and researchers of Living Shorelines, which are intended to restore natural shoreline functions in estuarine, marine, and aquatic systems.

Mudskippers are excellent model organisms for comparative physiological and morphological studies on terrestrial adaptations. This book should appeal to a broad range of students, researchers, and professionals in ichthyology, evolution, ecology, animal behavior, and comparative physiology.

Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and tidal flats to the continental edge, process energy and matter. This volume focuses on recent advances and new developments on how food webs are closely intertwined with the geology, chemistry, and physics of coastal seas. Dr. Alongi presents a process-functional approach as a way of understanding how the energetics of coastal ecosystems rely not only on exchanges within and between food chains, but how such functions are influenced by terrigenous and atmospheric processes. There is a need for documentation and an awareness of just how necessary, yet delicate, is the interplay of biological and physical forces between coastal ocean, land, and the atmosphere. Marine scientists today need to make informed management decisions about sustainable development and conservation of these fragile ecosystems. Coastal Ecosystem Processes provides present and future marine scientists the latest coastal ecosystem information to make the right decisions concerning the ecology of our oceans.

Intertidal Deposits: River Mouths, Tidal Flats, and Coastal Lagoons combines the authors personal and professional experience with the mass of available literature to present a cohesive overview of intertidal deposits and the widely diverse conditions of their formation worldwide.

Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoon ecosystems and the factors that affect them. The volume represents a wide array of studies on natural and anthropogenic drivers of change in coastal lagoons located in different regions of the world. Although a significant number of journal articles on the subject can be found in the literature, this book provides a single-source reference for coastal lagoons within the arena of the global environment.

Mudskippers are excellent model organisms for comparative physiological and morphological studies on terrestrial adaptations. This book should appeal to a broad range of students, researchers, and professionals in ichthyology, evolution, ecology, animal behavior, and comparative physiology.

Derived from research spanning over 31 years in a series of studies of seven major river-estuaries, this presents a comprehensive review of the nature of the eutrophication process and how short- and long-term nutrient loading affects marine systems. It is the culmination of advanced research on how coastal systems work.

Designed to meet the research, monitoring and assessment needs of scientists, planners, managers and administrators, this reference covers pollution in coastal and estuarine waters. It includes general concepts, case histories, and more.

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is a dynamic science. This book provides cellular, physiological, organismal, evolutionary, and applied perspectives and creates a high-resolution snapshot of the field at the start of the 21st century. It also includes subject reviews by experts.

Summarizing the main advances in the understanding of marine minerals, this book concentrates on the deposits of proven economic potential. It is divided into three sections: marine placers, manganese nodules and crusts, and deep-sea hydrothermal mineralization.

This study seeks to provide the background needed to undertake coastal oceanographic investigations and set them in context by incorporating case studies and sample problems. These are based on the author's experience as an environmental consultant.

Simplistic thinking would have us believe that by eliminating the loading of a given pollutant, an aquatic system will revert to its previous pristine state. This text looks at the restoration of aquatic systems, emphasizing the functional basis that supports such activities, followed by a review of the evidence of recovery.

Based on years of research conducted by the author and papers from international experts, this title presents a cohesive overview of intertidal deposits and the widely diverse conditions of their formation worldwide. It includes the influence of water movements, climate, sediment particle characteristics, vegetation, fauna, and man.

Explores the complex shore environment. This title covers the ways in which representative species have adapted to life in a constantly changing environment in terms of their interactions, the control of community structure, and how energy and materials are cycled in different ecosystems.

Offers a treatment of the field of larval ecology. This book includes 13 chapters that use reviews and critiques of various major topics in this diverse field. It includes topics such as: patterns of larval diversity; reproductive energetics; spawning ecology; life history theory; larval feeding and nutrition; and, larval mortality.

There is a need for documentation and awareness of how necessary and delicate the interplay is among the biological and physical forces of ocean, land, and the atmosphere. Dr. Alongi, an outstanding marine scientist known worldwide for his work on tropical marine systems, presents research on coastal ecosystem processes from both the temperate and