World Atlas of Seagrasses

Edmund P. Green, Frederick T. Short

298 pages, parution le 09/12/2003

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Résumé

Seagrasses, a group of about sixty species of underwater marine flowering plants, grow in the shallow marine and estuary environments of all the world's continents except Antarctica. The primary food of animals such as manatees, dugongs, green sea turtles, and critical habitat for thousands of other animal and plant species, seagrasses are also considered one of the most important shallow-marine ecosystems for humans since they play an important role in fishery production. Though they are highly valuable ecologically and economically, many seagrass habitats around the world have been completely destroyed or are now in rapid decline. The World Atlas of Seagrasses is the first authoritative and comprehensive global synthesis of the distribution and status of this critical marine habitat--which, along with mangroves and coral reefs, has been singled out for particular attention by the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.

Illustrated throughout with color maps, photographs, tables, and more, and written by a large team of international collaborators, this unique volume covers seagrass ecology, scientific studies to date, current status, changing distributions, threatened areas, and conservation and management efforts for twenty-four regions of the world. As human populations expand and continue to live disproportionately in coastal areas, bringing new threats to seagrass habitat, a comprehensive overview of coastal resources and critical habitats is more important than ever. The World Atlas of Seagrasses will stimulate new research, conservation, and management efforts, and will help better focus priorities at the international level for these vitally important coastal ecosystems.

Global Overview: The distribution and status of seagrasses
The seagrasses of Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea
The seagrasses of Western Europe
The seagrasses of The western Mediterranean
The seagrasses of The Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Seas
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L'auteur - Edmund P. Green

heads the UNEP-WCMC's Marine and Coastal Programme and is coauthor with Mark D. Spalding and Corinna Ravilious of World Atlas of Coral Reefs (California, 2001).

L'auteur - Frederick T. Short

is Research Professor of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire and coeditor of Global Seagrass Research Methods (2001).

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	University of California Press
Auteur(s)	Edmund P. Green, Frederick T. Short
Parution	09/12/2003
Nb. de pages	298
Format	22 x 30,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1790g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780520240476
ISBN13	978-0-520-24047-6