Large Marine Ecosystems Stress, Mitigation and Sustainability [Hardcover]

The future is uncertain for the world's large marine ecosystems. These relatively narrow ocean zones, which produce nearly 95% of useable marine biomass, are becoming increasingly stressed both by natural and anthropogenic changes. The potential for consequent negative effects on global ecologies and economies has aroused major international concern. This new volume is a state-of-the-art update on large marine ecosystems, representing a multidisciplinary effort to develop a more holistic approach to the research, monitoring and mangaement of marine resources.Part One: Sustainability of Large Marine Ecosystems.

- large marine ecosystems as global units for marine resources management.

- an ecological perspective;.

The large marine ecosystem approach to regional seas action plans and conventions: a geographic perspective;.

Scientific and organizational aspects of large marine ecosystems research;.

Application of large marine ecosystems management to global marine pollution;.

Application of international global change research programs, including GLOBEC, to long-term large marine ecosystems management;.

Approaches to forecasting biomass yields in large marine ecosystems;.

Part Two: Regional Case Studies - Stress and Mitigation of Large Marine Ecosystems.

- long-term viability in the food chains, biomass yields, and oceanography of the Bay of bengal ecosystem;.

Effects of physical and biological changes on the biomass yield of the Humboldt Current ecosystem;.

Food chains, physical dynamics, perturbations and biomass yields of the Sea of Okhotsk;.

Effetcs of long-term physical and biological perturbations on the contemporary biomass yields of the Yellow Sea ecosystem;.

Long-term variability in the fool“…