Challenges to Marine Ecosystems (eBook)

Genetics and resilience.- Mixed stock analysis and the power of different classes of molecular markers in discriminating coastal and oceanic Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) on the Lofoten spawning grounds, Northern Norway.- Contrasting levels of genetic differentiation among putative neutral microsatellite loci in Atlantic herring Clupea harengus populations and the implications for assessing stock structure.- Marine protected areas/reserves.- Marine reserves: the need for systems.- The challenge of assessing whether the OSPAR network of marine protected areas is ecologically coherent.- Individual-based movement behaviour in a simple marine reserve—Fishery system: why predictive models should be handled with care.- Effect of marine reserve protection on spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas Fabr., 1787) in a central western Mediterranean area.- Incorporating ecological functioning into the designation and management of marine protected areas.- Go with the flow: tidal import and export of larvae from semi-enclosed bays.- Seabed mapping in the southern Irish Sea: predicting benthic biological communities based on sediment characteristics.- Climate change and marine ecosystems.- Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea—which, when, where, why?.- The effect of high flow events on mussels (Mytilus edulis) in the Conwy estuary, North Wales, UK.- Mobility of metals in salt marsh sediments colonised by Spartina maritima (Tagus estuary, Portugal).- Ecological hindcasting of biogeographic responses to climate change in the European intertidal zone.- Long-term changes in the status of Sevastopol Bay and the Crimean coast: anthropogenic and climatic influences.- Sustainable fisheries/aquaculture.- The sea ahead: challenges to marine biology from seafood sustainability.- Effects of fishing methods on deep water shark species caught as by-catch off southern Portugal.- Catch me in winter! Seasonal variation in air temperature severely enhances physiological stress and mortality of species subjected to sorting operations and discarded during annual fishing activities.- Grazing and assimilation rate estimates of hydromedusae from a temperate tidal creek system.