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Large Marine Ecosystems of the North Atlantic
Changing States and Sustainability
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ELSEVIER
Edited by
K. Sherman, Director, Narragansett Laboratory and Office of Marine
Ecosystem Studies, NOAA-NMFS, 28 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02281,
USA
H.R. Skjoldal, Senior Scientist and Research Director, Institute of
Marine Research, P.O. Box 1870, Nordnes, N5817 Bergen, Norway
Included in series
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For more information about Large Marine Ecosystem projects, related
publications, and the campaign to improve global prospects for the
long-term sustainability of resources and environments of international
coastal waters, please see the Large Marine
<http://www.edc.uri.edu/lme/> Ecosystems website
Description
This is the first book to provide assessments of multidecadal changes in
resources and environments of the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of the
North Atlantic. Using the case study method, researchers examine the
forces driving the changes and actions underway aimed at turning the
corner from declining trends in biomass yields, toward recovery of
depleted species populations and improvements in ecosystem integrity.
Recently a distinguished group of 24 scientists argued eloquently that a
new Sustainability Science was emerging that was focused on "meeting
fundamental human needs while preserving the life support systems of
planet Earth". The contributions contained in this volume are at the
cutting edge of Sustainability Science and the results presented by the
contributors are pertinent to one of the core questions: "How are
long-term trends in environment and development, including consumption
and population, reshaping nature-society interactions in ways relevant
to sustainability?" (Science Vol. 292, 27 April 2001). The case studies
demonstrate the utility of an ecosystem-based approach to the assessment
and management of biomass yields and species sustainability.
Movements toward ecosystem-based management have emerged from the case
studies on the initiation of recoveries of several depleted groundfish
stocks of the US Northeast Shelf LME; the collapse of the
Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf cod; the assessment of physical and
biological changes on the Scotian Shelf, West Greenland Shelf, Iceland
Shelf LME, and the Faroe Plateau, the North Sea, and the Barents Sea
LMEs. Uncertainties, with regard to environmental and human-generated
forcing, are addressed in assessment of the states of the Iberian
Coastal and Biscay-Celtic LMEs, and in broad-scale studies of the
influences at the base of the food chain of climatic variability on the
productivity and biodiversity of plankton communities of the North
Atlantic. The volume concludes with an insightful perspective on the
approaches used and the results reported by the eminent marine scientist
and former President of ICES, Professor Gotthilf Hempel.
Audience
This book will be of interest to marine scientists, resource managers,
stewardship agencies, research institutions and laboratories, the
academic community, commercial interests, conservation groups, and the
environmentally-concerned public at large.
Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Contributors.
I. North Atlantic Teleconnections.
1. North Atlantic climatic signals and the plankton of the European
continental shelf (A.H. Taylor).
2. Interregional biological responses in the North Atlantic to
hydrometeorological forcing (P.C. Reid, G. Beaugrand).
II. Northwest Atlantic Large Marine Ecosystems.
3. Changes to the large marine ecosystem of the Newfoundland-Labrador
shelf (J. Rice).
4. Decadal changes in the Scotian shelf large marine ecosystem (K.C.T.
Zwanenburg, et al.).
5. Dynamics of fish larvae, zooplankton, and hydrographical
characteristics in the West Greenland large marine ecosystem 1950-1984
(S.A. Pedersen, J.C. Rice).
6. The U.S. northeast shelf large marine ecosystem: zooplankton trends
in fish biomass recovery (K. Sherman, et al.).
III. Insular North Atlantic.
7. Iceland shelf large marine ecosystem: decadal assessment and resource
sustainability (O.S. Astthorsson, H. Vilhjálmsson).
8. Ecological features and recent trends in the physical environment,
plankton, fish stocks, and seabirds in the Faroe shelf ecosystem (E.
Gaard, et al.).
IV. Northeast Atlantic.
9. Zooplankton-fish interactions in the Barents Sea (P. Dalpadado, et
al.).
10. Dynamics and human impact in the Bay of Biscay: an ecological
perspective (L. Valdés, A. Lavin).
11. Iberian sardine fisheries: trends and crises (T. Wyatt, C.
Porteiro).
12. The North Sea large marine ecosystem (J.M. McGlade).
V. Summary and Comments.
13. Changing states of the large marine ecosystems in the North
Atlantic: summary and comments (G. Hempel).
Index.
Year 2002
Hardbound
* ISBN: 0-444-51011-7
* 464 pages
* USD 99
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