Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Their Role in Monitoring and Management

by Ian Boyd, Sarah Wanless, C. J. Camphuysen

The sustainable exploitation of the marine environment depends upon our capacity to develop systems of management with predictable outcomes. Unfortunately, marine ecosystems are highly dynamic and this property could conflict with the objective of sustainable exploitation. This book investigates the theory that the population and behavioural dynamics of predators at the upper end of marine food chains can be used to assist with management. Since these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052161256X
• ISBN13: 9780521612562
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"