The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of marine habitats including coastal estuaries, shelf-break fronts, major ocean gyres, coral reefs, coastal upwelling areas, and the equatorial upwelling system investigates recent significant developments in this rapidly advancing field includes new research suggesting that long-term variability in the global atmospheric circulation affects the circulation of ocean basins, which in turn brings about major changes in fish stocks. This discovery opens up the exciting possibility of being able to predict major changes in global fish stocks written in an accessible, lucid style, this textbook is essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students studying marine ecology and biological oceanography
Author(s): Kenneth Mann, John Lazier
Edition: 3
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 512
Contents
......Page 6
Preface to third edition......Page 8
Preface to second edition......Page 10
Preface to first edition......Page 12
1 Marine ecology comes of age......Page 14
Part A Processes on a scale of less than 1 kilometer......Page 20
2 Biology and boundary layers......Page 22
3 Vertical structure of the open ocean: biology of the mixed layer......Page 81
4 Vertical structure in coastal waters: freshwater run-off and tidal mixing......Page 131
Part B Processes on a scale of 1–1000 kilometers......Page 176
5 Vertical structure in coastal waters: coastal upwelling regions......Page 178
6 Fronts in coastal waters......Page 229
7 Tides, tidal mixing, and internal waves......Page 267
Colour Plates......Page 298
Part C Processes on a scale of thousands of kilometers......Page 305
8 Ocean basin circulation: the biology of major currents, gyres, rings, and eddies......Page 307
9 Variability in ocean circulation: its biological consequences......Page 357
10 The oceans and global climate change: physical and biological aspects......Page 410
Part D Discussion and conclusions......Page 443
11 Questions for the future......Page 445
Appendix......Page 461
References......Page 464
Index......Page 509
