Marine Ecosystems
Marine Ecosystems
Ecosystem services are emerging as a key driver of conservation policy and environmental management. Delivery of ecosystem services depends on the efficient functioning of ecosystems, which in turn depends on biodiversity and environmental conditions. Many marine ecosystems are extremely productive and highly valued, but they are increasingly threatened by human activities. With contributions from leading researchers, this volume synthesises current understanding of the effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning caused by a variety of human activities and pressures at play in coastal marine ecosystems. The authors examine the likely consequences for ecosystem service provision, covering key topics including fisheries, aquaculture, physical structures, nutrients, chemical contaminants, marine debris and invasive species. Critically reviewing the latest developments, this is a unique resource both for environmental managers and policy-makers, and for researchers and students in marine ecology and environmental management.
- Features contributions from leading researchers, providing a current synthesis of key concepts for understanding human impacts on marine ecosystems and for environmental decision-making based on ecosystem services
- Links knowledge of human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with research into ecosystem services, integrating two historically separate areas
- Covers all major human activities and pressures on coastal marine ecosystems, including fisheries, aquaculture, chemical contaminants and invasive species, enabling readers to assess trade-offs on the basis of available scientific evidence
Reviews & endorsements
'… a valuable tool for those involved in policy and resource management.' Choice
'… a balanced, engaging, and useful volume. It is a delight to read and concise. This publication provides a much-needed and effective bridge between the academic state of the art and the policy actions the science might be invoked to support. The book is well suited for graduate students, as well as the broad audience of scientists working in government, management, or nonprofit contexts.' Mary I. O'Connor, The Quarterly Review of Biology
Product details
No date availablePaperback
9781107675087
406 pages
227 × 152 × 18 mm
0.66kg
33 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 17 tables
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Part I. Key Concepts:
- 1. Introduction Tasman Crowe, Melanie Austen and Christopher L. J. Frid
- 2. Ecosystem services and benefits from marine ecosystems Melanie Austen, Caroline Hattam and Tobias Börger
- 3. Assessing human impacts on marine ecosystems Christopher L. J. Frid and Tasman Crowe
- 4. Modifiers of impacts on marine ecosystems: disturbance regimes, multiple stressors and receiving environments Devin Lyons, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Christopher L. J. Frid and Rolf Vinebrooke
- 5. Impacts of changing biodiversity on marine ecosystem functioning Tasman Crowe
- Part II. Impacts of Human Activities and Pressures:
- 6. Marine fisheries and aquaculture Odette Paramor and Christopher L. J. Frid
- 7. Artificial physical structures Fabio Bulleri and Gee Chapman
- 8. Eutrophication and hypoxia: impacts of nutrient and organic enrichment Samuli Korpinen and Erik Bonsdorff
- 9. Pollution: effects of chemical contaminants and debris Emma Johnston and Mariana Mayer-Pinto
- 10. Invasions by non-indigenous species Mads Solgaard Thomsen, Thomas Wernberg and David Schiel
- Part III. Synthesis and Conclusions:
- 11. Human activities and ecosystem service use: impacts and trade-offs Melanie Austen, Caroline Hattam and Samantha Garrard
- 12. Conclusions Tasman Crowe, Dave Raffaelli and Christopher L. J. Frid
- Index.
