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Key Features
- Enhances learning opportunities with questions and answers, conversion and unit charts along with maps and colour images
- Introduces students to the oceans and marine organisms, and the importance of these organisms, including microbes which have not yet been fully covered in any other marine biology texts
- Presents a look to the future, with challenges ahead, but also shows the issues that have been solved by science so far (ozone hole, acid rain)
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About the Book
Biological Oceanography: An Introduction, Third Edition is a completely updated version of a classic undergraduate textbook. This new edition offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography and also provides an enhanced learning experience with numerous illustrations, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments at the back of the book.
The comprehensive coverage of this book focuses on communicating the importance of the ocean for Earth’s habitability. This includes a revised focus on the anthropogenic impacts on oceans using the latest research on human-ocean interactions, as well as new and revised chapters highlighting this relationship and the importance of the ocean to human survival. Additional new material includes a description of the operations of a typical research ship and appendices with maps, units of measurement, and conversion.
Readership
Second year and higher undergraduate students studying oceanography and marine science
Content
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