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Advances in Marine Biology

  • 1st Edition, Volume 50 - May 8, 2006
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alan J. Southward, Craig M. Young, Lee A. Fuiman
  • Language: English

Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C… Read more

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Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University of Texas, USA), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics which will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of Calanoid Copepods.

Key features

  • Includes over 55 tables of descriptive data
  • Covers such topics as coral reefs, southern ocean cephalopods, seagrass and mangrove habitats, and much more
  • 4 reviews authored by experts in their relevant fields of study

Readership

Marine biologists, fishery scientists, environmentalists, and ecologists.

Table of contents

1) Biology and ecology of the hydrocoral Millepora on coral reefs
John B. Lewis


2) The functional value of Caribbean coral reef, seagrass and mangrove habitats to ecosystem processes.
Alastair R. Harborne, Peter J. Mumby, Fiorenza Micheli, Christopher T. Perry, Craig P. Dahlgren, Katherine E. Holmes and Daniel R. Brumbaugh


3) Southern Ocean Cephalopods

Martin A. Collins and Paul G. K. Rodhouse


4) Effects of shallow-water hydrothermal venting on biological communities of coastal marine ecosystems of the Western Pacific

V.G. Tarasov

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 50
  • Published: June 12, 2006
  • Language: English

About the editors

AS

Alan J. Southward

Affiliations and expertise
Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, U.K.

CY

Craig M. Young

Craig Young is Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon, and past Director of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. Dr. Young has devoted his professional career to investigating the reproduction and early life-history stages of marine benthic invertebrates at all depths of the sea, and his lab pioneered the culture of larvae from deep-sea environments worldwide. Dr. Young, the founding editor of Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, returns to the second edition as co-editor.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biology and past Director of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, USA

LF

Lee A. Fuiman

Affiliations and expertise
University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, U.S.A.

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