Marine benthos : biology, ecosystem functions, and environmental impact

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Marine benthos : biology, ecosystem functions, and environmental impact / Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez, editor.

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Marine Benthos: Biology, Ecosystem Functions and Environmental Impact is a book dedicated to show a series of case studies about how benthic habitats are organized and how they function as a tool for any environmental impact studies. The present book documents how the natural condition of these communities is and aims to expand our present knowledge about their organization. The human population growth is driving a very strong pressure over coastal areas, and now more than ever we urgently need elements to evaluate environmental impacts. One of the most striking situations is the loss of biodiversity and the increase of invasive species who modify the trophic networks as well as the community structure. Many endangered species and species related to fisheries depend on the benthic habitat for their basic life cycle stages (reproduction, recruitment, nursery and feeding grounds) who might be impacted by natural and human induced causes. Ranging from species richness studies to population and community structure chapters, this book will bring the reader many options on how to measure environmental impacts. In particular, an analysis of how these environmental studies are made in Mexico provided a good example of how the present report base model is overdue and expresses the need for another approach. Keep in mind the present model does not take into account any statistical approach and is not mandatory in terms of the synergic and accumulative impacts; the lack of this consistency makes evaluation impossible to tell if the impacts are really happening.

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ISBN: 9781634849302
ISBN: 1634849302
Physical Description: xii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ©2016.
Copyright: ©2016

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Chapter 1 Importance of Benthos in the Trophic Structure of the Ichthyofauna of Los Frailes Reef, Gulf of California, Mexico -- Chapter 2 Marine Seaweeds of the Yucatan Peninsula: Diversity, Economic Importance and Conservation -- Chapter 3 Benthic Assemblages in South American Intertidal Rocky Shores: Biodiversity, Services, and Threats -- Chapter 4 Evaluation of Biomass and Reproductive Aspects of Invasive Algae Acanthophora spicifera in Punta Roca Caimancito B.C.S Mexico -- Chapter 5 Environmental Impacts on Marine Benthic Communities in an Industrialized Caribbean Island-Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 6 Prediction of Zostera Marina Shoot Growth, Leaf Production, Leaf Area and Shoot Weight using the Sheath Length -- Chapter 7 Distribution and Ecology of the Pacific Lobsterette Nephropsis Occidentalis Faxon, 1893 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidea), on the Continental Slope Off Western Mexico -- Chapter 8 Sea Turtles as Ecosystem Indicators: Situation in Mexico -- Chapter 9 Similarity in Mollusk Assemblages Associated with Conspicuous Habitat Formers in Northwest México -- Chapter 10 A Critique of the Environmental Impact Studies in México Based on two Study Cases.

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Subject:: Ocean bottom ecology.
Benthos.
Deep-sea ecology.
Marine ecology.
Biotic communities.
Benthos.
Biotic communities.
Deep-sea ecology.
Marine ecology.
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