Marine Biology

This book aims to report possible applications of seaweeds in agriculture as well as the composing ingredients of nutritional value and therapeutic...

Foraminifera is a big group of unicellular eukaryotic and mostly sea animals, having a hard shell of complexity striking for unicellular organisms....

Crustaceans, such as crabs, provide a high quality protein and omega 3 fatty acids that provide potential health benefits. Crabs have commercial im...

Whales, dolphins and porpoises are among the world's most mysterious and beautiful animals, and there are many opportunities to see them in the sea...

The Utah Mollusk Identification Guide offers up-to-date information for identifying aquatic and terrestrial snails, slugs, clams, and mussels withi...

Coral reefs represent the most spectacular and diverse marine ecosystem on the planet as well as a critical source of income for millions of people...

Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea. Roughly 91% of all marine species remain unknown: myths still ...

What lies beneath the surface of the ocean has mystified humankind for millennia.We have explored more of the surface of the Moon than we have of t...

'Big Meg is big fun! It's packed to the gills with gobsmacking facts, insightful conjecture, and personal obs from two world-class scientists and e...

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions do not only warm our planet but also acidify our oceans. It is currently unclear to which degree Earths clim...

From deep ocean trenches and the geographical poles to outer space, organisms can be found living in remarkably extreme conditions. This book provi...

From deep ocean trenches and the geographical poles to outer space, organisms can be found living in remarkably extreme conditions. This book provi...

The synthesis of the Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conference (ABEC) 2015, which was held to assess scientific progress over the past twnety-...

The World Ocean Assessment - or, to give its full title, The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment - is the outcome of the first cycle of the U...

The marine world is a universe in its own. It has its own rules of life and death, and many of its resources are still left undiscovered. Marine al...

This book provides current research on aquaculture. Chapter One reviews management, challenges and developments of aquaculture in Ghana, West Afric...

Crustaceans are key organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Today crustaceans of Ponto-Caspian origin have become important faunal constituents in many Eu...

Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions aro...

Snow and ice environments support significant biological activity, yet the biological importance of some of these habitats, such as glaciers, has o...

As a society, we use more than 100,000 different industrial compounds to promote health and treat disease, to grow food and to access clean water. ...

Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus, is an important commercial and recreational fish species and there has been much interest in maintaining its stat...