By Tony J. Pitcher, Telmo Morato, Paul J. B. Hart, Malcolm R. Clark, Nigel Haggan, Ricardo Serrão Santos
ISBN-10: 0470691956
ISBN-13: 9780470691953
ISBN-10: 1405133430
ISBN-13: 9781405133432
Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains emerging from the sea seafloor that don't achieve the skin. there are probably many thousands of seamounts, they're often shaped from volcanoes within the deep sea and are outlined by way of oceanographers as self reliant beneficial properties that upward thrust to not less than 1/2 km above the seafloor, even if smaller positive factors can have an identical origin.
This publication follows a logical development from geological and actual approaches, ecology, biology and biogeography, to exploitation, administration and conservation matters. In 21 Chapters written via fifty seven of the world’s major seamount specialists, the publication experiences all facets in their geology, ecology, biology, exploitation, conservation and administration. In part I of this e-book, numerous detection and estimation options for tallying seamounts are reviewed, besides a heritage of seamount research.
This publication represents a special and clean synthesis of information of seamounts and their biota and is a necessary reference paintings at the subject. it's an important buy for all fisheries scientists and bosses, fish biologists, marine biologists and ecologists, environmental scientists, conservation biologists and oceanographers. it is going to even be of curiosity to individuals of fish and natural world businesses and govt departments overlaying conservation and management.
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Content:
Chapter 1 Seamount features (pages 1–25): Paul Wessel
Chapter 2 what percentage Seamounts are There and the place are They positioned? (pages 26–40): Adrian Kitchingman, Sherman Lai, Telmo Morato and Daniel Pauly
Chapter three A historical past of Seamount study (pages 41–61): Paul E. Brewin, Karen I. shares and Gui Menezes
Chapter four actual methods and Seamount productiveness (pages 62–84): Martin White, Igor Bashmachnikov, Javier Aristegui and Ana Martins
Chapter five Seamount Plankton Dynamics (pages 87–100): Amatzia Genin and John F. Dower
Chapter 6 Midwater Fish Assemblages and Seamounts (pages 101–116): Filipe M. Porteiro and Tracey Sutton
Chapter 7 Seamount Benthos (pages 117–140): Sarah Samadi, Thomas Schlacher and Bertrand Richer de Forges
Chapter eight Corals on Seamounts (pages 141–169): Alex D. Rogers, Amy Baco, Huw Griffiths, Thomas Hart and Jason M. Hall?Spencer
Chapter nine Seamount Fishes: Ecology and existence Histories (pages 170–188): Telmo Morato and Malcolm R. Clark
Chapter 10A Fish viewers to Seamounts: Tunas and invoice Fish at Seamounts (pages 189–201): Kim N. Holland and R. Dean Grubbs
Chapter 10B Fish viewers to Seamounts: Aggregations of huge Pelagic Sharks Above Seamounts (pages 202–206): Feodor Litvinov
Chapter eleven Seamounts and Cephalopods (pages 207–229): Malcolm Clarke
Chapter 12A Air?Breathing viewers to Seamounts: Marine Mammals (pages 230–238): Kristin Kaschner
Chapter 12B Air?Breathing viewers to Seamounts: Sea Turtles (pages 239–244): Marco A. Santos, Alan B. Bolten, Helen R. Martins, Brian Riewald and Karen A. Bjorndal
Chapter 12C Air?Breathing viewers to Seamounts: value of Seamounts to Seabirds (pages 245–251): David R. Thompson
Chapter thirteen Biogeography and Biodiversity of Seamounts (pages 252–281): Karen I. shares and Paul J.B. Hart
Chapter 14 Raiding the Larder: A Quantitative assessment Framework and Trophic Signature for Seamount meals Webs (pages 282–295): Tony J. Pitcher and Cathy Bulman
Chapter 15 Modelling Seamount Ecosystems and their Fisheries (pages 296–332): Beth Fulton, Telmo Morato and Tony J. Pitcher
Chapter sixteen Small?Scale Fishing on Seamounts (pages 333–360): Helder Marques da Silva and Mario Rui Pinho
Chapter 17 Large?Scale Distant?Water Trawl Fisheries on Seamounts (pages 361–399): Malcolm R. Clark, Vladimir I. Vinnichenko, John D.M. Gordon, Georgy Z. Beck?Bulat, Nikolai N. Kukharev and Alexander F. Kakora
Chapter 18 Catches from global Seamount Fisheries (pages 400–412): Reg Watson, Adrian Kitchingman and William W. Cheung
Chapter 19 affects of Fisheries on Seamounts (pages 413–441): Malcolm R. Clark and J. Anthony Koslow
Chapter 20 administration and Conservation of Seamounts (pages 442–475): P. Keith Probert, Sabine Christiansen, Kristina M. Gjerde, Susan Gubbay and Ricardo S. Santos
Chapter 21 The Depths of lack of know-how: An environment review Framework for Seamount Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation (pages 476–488): Tony J. Pitcher, Telmo Morato, Paul J. B. Hart, Malcolm R. Clark, Nigel Haggan and Ricardo S. Santos
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