Marine biology : function, biodiversity, ecology / Jeffrey S. Levinton

Contents:
I. Principles of Oceanography and Marine Biology
1. Sounding the Deep
2. The Oceanic Environment
3. Ecological and Evolutionary Principles
II. Marine Organisms: Function and Environment
4. The Chemical and Physical Environment
5. Reproduction, Dispersal, and Migration
6. Life in a Fluid Medium
III. Organisms of the Open Sea
7. The Water Column: Plankton
8. The Water Column: Nekton
IV. Processes in the Open Sea
9. Critical Factors in Plankton Abundance
10. Productivity and Food Webs in the Sea
V. Organisms of the Seabed
11. The Diversity of Benthic Marine Invertebrates
12. Seaweeds, Sea Grasses, and Benthic Microorganisms
13. Benthic Life Habits
VI. Coastal Benthic Environments
14. The Tidelands: Rocky Shores, Soft-Substratum Shores, Marshes, Mangroves, and Estuaries
15. Sea Grass Beds, Kelp Forests, Rocky Reefs, and Coral Reefs
VII. Processes on the Seabed, from the Shelf to the Deep Sea.
16. from the Continental Shelf to the Deep Sea
17. Biodiversity and Conservation of the ocean
VIII. Human Impact on the Sea
18. Food from the Sea
19. Marine Pollution.

Includes bibliographical references.