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By Tim McClanahan,George Branch

ISBN-10: 0195319958

ISBN-13: 9780195319958

Biologists have made major advances in our figuring out of the Earth's shallow subtidal marine ecosystems, however the findings on those disparate areas have by no means prior to been documented and collected in one quantity. Now, in Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs, Tim R. McClanahan and George M. department fill this lacuna with a comparative and finished selection of 9 essays written through specialists on particular aquatic areas. each one essay specializes in the meals webs of a respective atmosphere and the criteria affecting those groups, from the serious and direct strain of human impact on fisheries to the multi-vector individuals to weather switch. The booklet covers 9 shallow water marine ecosystems from chosen parts during the global: 4 coral reef platforms, 3 challenging backside structures, and kelp structures. In summarizing their association, human impact on them, and up to date advancements in those ecosystems, the authors give a contribution to our knowing in their ecological association and administration. Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs may be a great tool for all benthic marine investigators, supplying knowledgeable, comparative view of those aquatic regions.

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