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'A very good introduction to biological oceanography for both biologically trained and non-biologically trained students'. Professor Michael Orren, Head of Oceanography, University College Galway
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This popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography. As well as a clear and accessible text, learning is enhanced with numerous illustrations including a colour section, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments at the back of the book. The comprehensive coverage of this book encompasses the properties of seawater which affect life in the ocean, classification of marine environments and organisms, phytoplankton and zooplankton, marine food webs, larger marine animals (marine mammals, seabirds and fish), life on the seafloor, and the way in which humans affect marine ecosystems. The second edition has been thoroughly updated, including much data available for the first time in a book at this level. There is also a new chapter on human impacts - from harvesting vast amounts of fish, pollution, and deliberately or accidentally transferring marine organisms to new environments. This book complements the "Open University Oceanography Series", also published by Butterworth-Heinemann, and is a set text for the Open University third level course, S330. It features a leading undergraduate text, new chapter on human impacts - a highly topical subject, and an expanded colour plate section.
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The oceans occupy about 71% of the Earth's surface. Read the first page
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is aq really good introdution to the life in the oceans. I recently used this book for a module in my Oceanography degree and it was really helpful. I also recommend this book for Marine Biologists as well.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book for my husband who is studying for the OU course it is associated with. Just what he wanted, it arrived quickly and was as cheap as anywhere else I could find it. No fuss - just what we needed.
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understandable as an ecosystem
27 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
The authors provide more than just a superficial descriptive tour of the oceans. The text delves into studying the ocean as an ecosystem or subsets of it, as ecosystems in their own right. The food chain provides one way of understanding an ecosystem, and the adaptations that various creatures have for the niches they occupy. Here, the authors start from first principles, with the photosynthetic species and the depths which they occupy.
The book also shows that at the ocean bottoms, even with no photosynthesis, there is still a rich environment for benthic species.
The diagrams are well done and readily understandable. The biochemistry is pretty simple, but this is just an introductory text.
The book also shows that at the ocean bottoms, even with no photosynthesis, there is still a rich environment for benthic species.
The diagrams are well done and readily understandable. The biochemistry is pretty simple, but this is just an introductory text.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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11 Nov 2009
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It's really good for who are just beginning to learn about biological oceanography and marine biology.
Exceptional service/shipment
2 Jan 2011
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Shipment was really great. The book arrived one-two days after I ordered. Although it makes some sense because I live in new york city, the service was still exceptional!
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