Online Resource
Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
Keywords:
Marine ecology.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783030025144
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5739920
DDC:
363.7394
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Seas of Yesteryear -- 1 A Brief History of Our Seas -- The Mother of All Extinctions -- Great Marine Beasts -- Survivors Born -- 2 The Sea That Once Was -- The Mysterious History of the Black Sea -- The Red Forest that Disappeared -- The Closest Thing to the Past -- 3 Hunted to Extinction -- The Tragic Story of the Sea Cow -- The Extinction of the Great Auk -- The Sad Seal -- 4 Whatever Happened to Cod? -- Basques and Cod -- The Hated Competitors -- The Upcoming Changes -- 5 The End of the Cetaceans' Reign -- Disclosing Irregularities -- Scientific Hunting -- Whales and Climate Change -- Effects of Overfishing -- 6 Major Fisheries and the End of Innocence -- Squid Take up Positions -- El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy -- Cantabrian Anchovy -- 7 The Sea's Harvest -- Tuna and Traps -- The Forgotten Sharks -- Protecting the Open Ocean -- 8 Ploughing the Sea: The Destruction of the Marine Forest -- Deep Corals -- What is the 'Nursery Effect'? -- By-Catch -- 9 The Forgotten Fish -- Destroying with Dynamite -- But What Harm Can a Fishhook Do? -- Hunting in the Sea: Fishing with a Speargun -- 10 The Ghosts of the Sea -- A Small Sea of Jellyfish -- Giant Jellyfish (Nomura nomurai) -- Carybdea marsupialis, Mediterranean Cubomedusa -- 11 Precious Coral -- A Bit of History -- Emperor Sea Mountains -- An Example to Follow -- Effects of Pollution -- 12 The Silent Threat -- BP Disaster -- The Tragedy of Plastics -- Mercury in the Arctic -- 13 The Swamped Shoreline -- Dead Zones -- The Destruction of Coasts -- Too Many Visitors -- 14 The Stained Sea -- Red Tide and Invasions Through Ports -- Dark Slime -- 15 The True Alien Nightmare -- The Mediterranean: A Sea of Invasions -- 'Killer' Algae -- A Problematic Crab -- Impact of Climate Change -- 16 Climate Detectives -- Changes in Carbon Dioxide Balances over the Last Millennium.
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The Worst-Case Scenario -- 17 Arctic and Antarctic: Something Moves on the Ice -- Cryosphere -- What Happened at Larsen? -- Climate Change in My Direct Experience: A Unique Expedition (R/V Polarstern ANT XXVII-3) -- There Are Only Four Polar Bears -- 18 Water Warming -- Tropicalization of the Mediterranean -- Coasts that Make Water -- Storms -- 19 More Acidic Seas -- The Keys to Understanding the Problem -- A Natural Laboratory on the Move -- The Mediterranean: A Special Case -- Climate Change 'Mitigation' Experiments -- 20 The Slow Death of the Reef -- The Sick Reef -- Mass Mortalities in the Mediterranean -- Why is the 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Figure Important? -- Future Prospects -- 21 Farms in the Sea -- Fishing for Fish? -- China -- Shrimp and Mangrove Forests -- Algae Fields -- 22 The Sense Behind Marine Protected Areas -- No Monitoring, No Reservation -- How Much is an Ecosystem Worth? -- The Sea Ignored -- 23 Underwater Restoration -- Growing Red Coral -- Biological Corridors -- Replanting Posidonia and Other Spermatophytes -- 24 Energy and Matter from the Sea -- Deep Mining -- Integrated Future -- 25 Anything to Add? -- The Value of the Naturalist -- Educate, Transmit, Raise Awareness -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- General -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Epilogue.
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