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Advances in Marine Biology
- 1st Edition, Volume 95 - October 27, 2023
- Editor: Charles Sheppard
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 2 5 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 2 5 9 - 6
Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 95, the latest release in this serial that highlights new advances in the field, includes comprehensive chapters written by an intern… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Marine Biology, Volume 95, the latest release in this serial that highlights new advances in the field, includes comprehensive chapters written by an international board of authors.
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Advances in Marine Biology series
Postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, oceanography
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors to Volume 95
- Series Contents for Last Fifteen Years
- Chapter One: Discards and bycatch: A review of wasted fishing
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Two: Sponge functional roles in a changing world
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sponge functional roles
- 3 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Three: Darwin’s feathers: Eco-evolutionary biology, predictions and policy
- Abstract
- 1 Time and culture
- 2 Engineers and policy makers
- 3 Railroads, sand, harbours and shells
- 4 Why envy physics or chemistry
- 5 Robert May, mathematical models and species
- 6 Hard or soft
- 7 Chaos theory: Attractors, butterflies and black wwans
- 8 Popper and science: Black versus white crows
- 9 Universal versus existential statements
- 10 Historical vs a-historical systems
- 11 Where to go now
- 12 The future
- 13 How the world works
- References
- Chapter Four: The biology and ecology of the basking shark: A review
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General features
- 3 Distribution
- 4 Research methods
- 5 Habitat
- 6 Anatomy and physiology
- 7 Food and foraging
- 8 Behaviour
- 9 Population studies
- 10 Social behaviour
- 11 Reproduction and life characteristics
- 12 Population
- 13 Health
- 14 Genetics and evolution
- 15 Fisheries and ecotourism
- 16 Conservation and management
- 17 Mythology and culture
- 18 Commensals
- 19 Comparable large elasmobranchs
- 20 Discussion
- 21 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- No. of pages: 318
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 95
- Published: October 27, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323992589
- eBook ISBN: 9780323992596
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Charles Sheppard
I hold a half-time position of Professor in the School of Life Sciences. The remainder of my time I work for a range of UN , Governmental and aid agencies in tropical marine and coastal development issues.
I advise several governments on marine and coastal management and science, including the UK Government on its tropical Overseas Territories.
I have organised and led the scientific input to the 2010 creation of the world's largest fully protected marine researce, in the Chagos archipelago, Indian Ocean, where a lot of my research has been focussed.
The other main geographical area of research is the Arabian region.
PhD University of Durham 1976.
Fellow, Linnean Society
Conservation Fellow, Zoological Society London
Reviewing member of the IPCC
Editor of the Elsevier journal:Marine Pollution Bulletin
Author and/or editor 10 books at various levels, from lay, student text and academic.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Sydney, AustraliaRead Advances in Marine Biology on ScienceDirect