Life in the World′s Oceans – Diversity Abundance and Distribution

Professor Alasdair McIntyre is based at the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Foreword. Introduction. Acknowledgments. Contributors. The Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life. PART I Oceans Past. 1 Marine Animal Populations: A New Look Back in Time. PART II Oceans Present Geographic Realms. 2 Surveying Nearshore Biodiversity. 3 Biodiversity Knowledge and its Application in the Gulf of Maine Area. 4 Coral Reef Biodiversity. 5 New Perceptions of Continental Margin Biodiversity. 6 Biodiversity Patterns and Processes on the Mid- Atlantic Ridge. 7 Life on Seamounts. 8 Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life. 9 Biogeography, Ecology, and Vulnerability of Chemosynthetic Ecosystems in the Deep Sea. 10 Marine Life in the Arctic. 11 Marine Life in the Antarctic. PART III Oceans Present Global Distributions. 12 A Global Census of Marine Microbes. 13 A Census of Zooplankton of the Global Ocean. PART IV Oceans Present Animal Movements. 14 Tracking Fish Movements and Survival on the Northeast Pacific Shelf. 15 A View of the Ocean from Pacific Predators. PART V Oceans Future. 16 The Future of Marine Animal Populations. PART VI Using the Data. 17 Data Integration: The Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Index.