Roff / Zacharias Marine Conservation Ecology

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-53837-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

This major textbook provides a broad coverage of the ecological foundations of marine conservation, including the rationale, importance and practicalities of various approaches to marine conservation and management. The scope of the book encompasses an understanding of the elements of marine biodiversity - from global to local levels - threats to marine biodiversity, and the structure and function of marine environments as related to conservation issues.

The authors describe the potential approaches, initiatives and various options for conservation, from the genetic to the species, community and ecosystem levels in marine environments. They explore methods for identifying the units of conservation, and the development of defensible frameworks for marine conservation. They describe planning of ecologically integrated conservation strategies, including decision-making on size, boundaries, numbers and connectivity of protected area networks. The book also addresses relationships between fisheries and biodiversity, novel methods for conservation planning in the coastal zone and the evaluation of conservation initiatives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roff, John

Zacharias, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Marine Conservation Ecology: Concepts and Frameworks

1: Introduction: Why marine conservation is necessary
Significance, threats, and management of the oceans and biodiversity

2: The marine environment: Physico-chemical characteristics
Structures and processes ? enduring and recurrent factors

3: The marine environment: Ecology and biology
Pelagic and benthic realms and coastal fringing communities

4: Approaches to marine conservation
Traditional strategies and ecological frameworks

5: Representative areas: Global to ecoregional
Marine conservation at the ecosystem / habitat level

6: Habitats and communities: Ecoregional to local
Reality, Variability and scales of relationships

7: Distinctive areas: Species and ecosystem processes
Ecosystem processes - ergoclines and hotspots

8: Patterns of biodiversity: Species diversity
Theories and relationships - global, regional, local

9: Species and focal species
Keystones, umbrellas, flagships, indicators and others

10: Genetic diversity
Significance of genetics: From genes to ecosystems

11: Coastal zones
Components, complexities and classifications

12: High seas and deep seas
Pelagic and benthic, hydrography and biogeography

13: Linking fisheries management with marine conservation objectives through ecosystem approaches
Compatibility of exploitation and preservation

14: Size and boundaries of protected areas
Rationale for function, location, dimensions

15: Evaluation of protected areas
The concept of 'value' as applied to marine biodiversity

16: Sets of protected areas
Integrating distinctive and representative protected areas

17: Networks of protected areas
Patterns of connectivity in the oceans

18. Approaches to the establishment of marine monitoring programs
Stabilizing the baselines

19: Remaining problems in marine conservation
Present problems, future solutions

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Roff was Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Science and Conservation at Acadia University, Canada, and is now European Scholar in the EU Erasmus Mundus Programme.

Mark Zacharias is Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Assistant Deputy Minister with the Province of British Columbia, Canada.

The book also includes earlier contributions by Jon Day, who is currently Director, Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainable Use, with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in Australia. Jon's contributions primarily occurred during the late 1990s when he was working in North America, but today Jon's expertise is widely recognized in marine spatial planning and marine management matters.