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"An excellent book! I am very impressed with the breadth of coverage and the amount of substantive biology, especially ecology, that Levinton has incorporated into the text without sacrificing clarity and readability. An impressive treatment suitable for a range of undergraduate courses!" --Larry McEdward, University of Florida
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This new and revised second edition of Jeffrey S. Levinton's Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology promises to be as fascinating and informative as the first, with additions that bring it up-to-date on current research issues. Designed for one-semester junior/senior courses, this established volume stands as one of the most current and thorough resources for students in the multidisciplinary field of marine biology. The new edition includes significantly expanded coverage of marine mammals and hypothesis testing and offers entirely new sections on subtidal rocky reefs, metapopulations, marine invasions, marine protected areas and no-take fishery zones, and molecular approaches to marine biology and fisheries. It emphasizes the relationship of the functional ecology of organisms to higher levels of organization, including major marine habitats and ecosystems. It effectively describes a variety of current research areas, conveying the dynamic range of activity in the field, and uses "Hot Topics" Essays to teach students that scientific study is an active and ongoing process.
Complementing the text are a wealth of pedagogical features including:
32 full-color plates
Expanded text boxes that highlight important and current research topics
A self-test keyed to the chapters and bound into the back of the book
The CD-ROM, "Marine Biology Explorations." This in-text CD takes students on a guided tour of marine environments and animals with approximately 450 full-color photographs and illustrations, annotated with informative descriptions. Images are from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica. Each subject area allows students to wander in new environments and encounter new organisms and ecological features.
A Website maintained by the author: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbweb.html. This useful website provides links to other sites such as college marine biology programs, careers and jobs in marine biology and oceanography, reference sites, organism pages, marine biology research literature, and worldwide marine laboratories.
Ancillary PowerPointRG Overheads. These elaborate overheads include most of the pictures from the text and are available free to adopters on a CD-ROM (call 1-800-280-0280) or from the Internet: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195141725.html.
An associated laboratory manual: Exploring Marine Biology by Paul Haefner. This book is the only manual of its kind with exercises that apply to all of the diverse marine habitats of North America. It meets the needs of any beginning marine biology student with little to no background in the biological sciences. Each unit includes a broad range of exercises, allowing instructors to select those that best match their needs. The manual is also unique in providing extensively illustrated identification keys for three of the major marine lifeforms: invertebrates, plankton, and fishes.
1996 272pp.; 101 illus.
0-19-51417-7 paper APS HAEFN
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"An excellent book! I am very impressed with the breadth of coverage and the amount of substantive biology, especially ecology, that Levinton has incorporated into the text without sacrificing clarity and readability. An impressive treatment suitable for a range of undergraduate courses!" --Larry McEdward, University of Florida
Product Description
This new and revised second edition of Jeffrey S. Levinton's Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology promises to be as fascinating and informative as the first, with additions that bring it up-to-date on current research issues. Designed for one-semester junior/senior courses, this established volume stands as one of the most current and thorough resources for students in the multidisciplinary field of marine biology. The new edition includes significantly expanded coverage of marine mammals and hypothesis testing and offers entirely new sections on subtidal rocky reefs, metapopulations, marine invasions, marine protected areas and no-take fishery zones, and molecular approaches to marine biology and fisheries. It emphasizes the relationship of the functional ecology of organisms to higher levels of organization, including major marine habitats and ecosystems. It effectively describes a variety of current research areas, conveying the dynamic range of activity in the field, and uses "Hot Topics" Essays to teach students that scientific study is an active and ongoing process.
Complementing the text are a wealth of pedagogical features including:
32 full-color plates
Expanded text boxes that highlight important and current research topics
A self-test keyed to the chapters and bound into the back of the book
The CD-ROM, "Marine Biology Explorations." This in-text CD takes students on a guided tour of marine environments and animals with approximately 450 full-color photographs and illustrations, annotated with informative descriptions. Images are from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica. Each subject area allows students to wander in new environments and encounter new organisms and ecological features.
A Website maintained by the author: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbweb.html. This useful website provides links to other sites such as college marine biology programs, careers and jobs in marine biology and oceanography, reference sites, organism pages, marine biology research literature, and worldwide marine laboratories.
Ancillary PowerPointRG Overheads. These elaborate overheads include most of the pictures from the text and are available free to adopters on a CD-ROM (call 1-800-280-0280) or from the Internet: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195141725.html.
An associated laboratory manual: Exploring Marine Biology by Paul Haefner. This book is the only manual of its kind with exercises that apply to all of the diverse marine habitats of North America. It meets the needs of any beginning marine biology student with little to no background in the biological sciences. Each unit includes a broad range of exercises, allowing instructors to select those that best match their needs. The manual is also unique in providing extensively illustrated identification keys for three of the major marine lifeforms: invertebrates, plankton, and fishes.
1996 272pp.; 101 illus.
0-19-51417-7 paper APS HAEFN
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Further Reading, New York, Box Figure, United States, North America, North Atlantic, Chesapeake Bay, New England, Hudson River, Jeff Levinton, Review Questions, American Naturalist, Biological Bulletin, Long Island, North Sea, Cambridge University Press, Marine Ecology-Progress Series, Pacific Ocean, Academic Press, San Francisco Bay, Great Barrier Reef, Robert Richmond, Ecological Monographs, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina New!
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On every coast of the world, scientists work in field locations and in marine stations ranging from multi-million-dollar structures to small shacks with fanciful paintings of lobsters and crabs above the door. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Further Reading, New York, Box Figure, United States, North America, North Atlantic, Chesapeake Bay, New England, Hudson River, Jeff Levinton, Review Questions, American Naturalist, Biological Bulletin, Long Island, North Sea, Cambridge University Press, Marine Ecology-Progress Series, Pacific Ocean, Academic Press, San Francisco Bay, Great Barrier Reef, Robert Richmond, Ecological Monographs, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina New!
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- Primary Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea (Environmental Science Research) by Paul G. Falkowski on page 221, page 222, and page 233
- What If? by Shari Low on page 98, and page 328
- Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment by Schmidt-Nielsen on page 91, and page 197
- Current Perspectives in High Pressure Biology by Holger W. Jannasch on page 407, and page 408
- Deep Sea by Francis Brett Young on page 407, and page 408
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- Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast by Mimi A. R. Koehl in Back Matter
- Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems by Walter H. Adey on page 310
- Estuarine Research, Monitoring, and Resource Protection (Marine Science) by Michael J. Kennish on page 209
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