9.2 Heterotrophic Bacterioplankton
9.3 Zooplankton
9.4 Benthos
9.5 Fisheries
References
CHAPTER 10: Food Webs and Carbon Fluxes
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Sandy Beaches and Tidal Flats
10.3 Rocky Intertidal Shores
10.4 Seagrass Meadows
10.5 Mangrove Forests
10.6 Coral Reefs
10.7 Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons
10.8 Coastal Bays and Continental Shelves
10.9 Open Ocean
References
CHAPTER 11: Nutrient Biogeochemistry
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Sandy Beaches, Tidal Flats, and Rocky Intertidal Shores
11.3 Seagrass Meadows
11.4 Mangrove Forests
11.5 Coral Reefs
11.6 Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons
11.7 Coastal Bays and Continental Shelves
11.8 Open Ocean
References
9 PART IV: HUMAN IMPACTS CHAPTER 12: Pollution 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Hydrocarbons 12.3 Metals 12.4 Eutrophication 12.5 Pesticides and Industrial Organic Chemicals 12.6 Plastics and Other Marine Debris 12.7 Biological Pollution References CHAPTER 13: Climate Change 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Rising Temperatures, Increased Storms, Extreme Weather Events, and Changes in Precipitation 13.3 Sea‐level Rise (SLR) 13.4 Rising Atmospheric CO2 13.5 Ocean Acidification 13.6 Increasing Hypoxia 13.7 Impacts on Shelf and Oceanic Ecosystems and Fisheries References CHAPTER 14: Habitat Destruction and Degradation 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Coral Reefs 14.3 Seagrass Meadows 14.4 Mangrove Forests References CHAPTER 15: Epilogue
10 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1TABLE 1.1 Major hydrological and climatological characteristics unique to or domi...TABLE 1.2 Major geological and chemical characteristics unique to or dominant in ...
2 Chapter 2TABLE 2.1 IPCC projected changes for tropical regions in salinity, precipitation,...
3 Chapter 4TABLE 4.1 Estimates of water (km3 a−1) and suspended sediment (109 tonnes a−1) di...
4 Chapter 5TABLE 5.1 Key tectonic events of the Cenozoic and their effects on the oceans and...
5 Chapter 8TABLE 8.1 Mean rates of dark respiration (R, μmol CO2 m−2 s−1) and photosynthesis...TABLE 8.2 Estimates of aboveground net primary production (ANPP = t DW ha−1 a−1) ...TABLE 8.3 Aboveground primary productivity (ANPP = g DW m−2 d−1TABLE 8.4 Rates (mmol C m−2 d−1) of gross primary production, respiration, and ne...TABLE 8.5 Rates of NPP (μmol O2 cm−2 d−1) of different organisms and substrates u...TABLE 8.6 Net primary production (NPP) and chlorophyll a concentration (μg l−1) i...TABLE 8.7 Median and range of the integrated primary production (NPP) and communi...TABLE 8.8 Categorisation of the world’s subtropical and tropical continental shel...
6 Chapter 9TABLE 9.1 Rates of heterotrophic bacterioplankton production in subtropical and t...TABLE 9.2 Secondary production and production to biomass ratio (P:B) of subtropic...TABLE 9.3 Egg production rates (eggs female−1 d−1) of subtropical and tropical zo...TABLE 9.4 Annual production estimates (g DW m−2 a−1) and production to biomass (...TABLE 9.5 Annual yield (Mt) of wild capture fisheries by tropical region, 1950–20...TABLE 9.6 Top subtropical and tropical fishing nations in the top 25 major produc...
7 Chapter 10TABLE 10.1 Mean global CH4 emissions, C burial rates, and offsets in mangroves, a...TABLE 10.2 Mean CO2 flux (mmol C m−2 d−1) in the estuaries of the major rivers of...
8 Chapter 11TABLE 11.1 Rates of nitrogen fixation and denitrification in some tropical/subtro...TABLE 11.2 Rates of N transformation processes (mg N m−2 d−1) in mangrove soils....TABLE 11.3 Rates of nitrogen fixation (mg N m−2 d−1) at the mangrove soil surface...TABLE 11.4 Estimates of net NO and N2O gas and dissolved nitrogen fluxes across t...TABLE 11.5 Rates of
