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Aquatic animals --- Biodiversity conservation

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Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecological communities, from tiny microbes to large animals and plants, is emerging as the key to prediction. Based on the relationship between body size and features such as biological rates, the physics of water and the amount of habitat available, we may be able to understand patterns of abundance and diversity, biogeography, interactions in food webs and the impact of fishing, adding up to a potential 'periodic table' for ecology. Remarkable progress on the unravelling, describing and modelling of aquatic food webs, revealing the fundamental role of body size, makes a book emphasising marine and freshwater ecosystems particularly apt. In this 2007 book, the importance of body size is examined at a range of scales that will be of interest to professional ecologists, from students to senior researchers.

Aquatic animals --- Aquatic ecology. --- Aquatic biology --- Ecology --- Aquatic fauna --- Water animals --- Animals --- Aquatic organisms --- Size.

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Fishes --- Physiology --- Anatomy --- Ecology --- Fishes. --- Physiology. --- Anatomy. --- Ecology. --- Fish --- Pisces --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fisheries --- Fishing --- Ichthyology --- Fishes - Physiology --- Fishes - Anatomy --- Fishes - Ecology

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Academic collection --- 591.524.1 --- 591.55 --- 504.45 --- Aquatic animals --- Communal life. Animal societies --- Running water environment. Inland surface waters. Rivers, river mouths, deltas, lakes, swamps, wetlands --- Theses --- 504.45 Running water environment. Inland surface waters. Rivers, river mouths, deltas, lakes, swamps, wetlands --- 591.55 Communal life. Animal societies --- 591.524.1 Aquatic animals

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In the oceans, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space where life can develop. And the deep sea, immersed in total darkness since the dawn of time, occupies 85% of ocean space, the planet's largest habitat. Yet the deep sea is mostly uncharted--only about 5% of the seafloor has been mapped with any reasonable degree of detail--and we know very little about the creatures that call it home. Current estimates about the number of species yet to be found vary between ten and thirty million. The deep sea is without doubt Earth's largest reservoir of life. Combining the latest scientific discoveries with astonishing color imagery, this book takes readers on a voyage into these dark realms, with more than two hundred color photographs of sea monsters, living fossils, and ethereal bioluminescent creatures.--From publisher description.

Deep-sea animals --- Deep-sea ecology --- waterdieren --- aquatic animals --- zeedieren --- marine animals --- mariene gebieden --- marine areas --- photographs --- mariene biologie --- marine biology --- Zoology (General) --- Biology of Animal Taxonomic Groups (General) --- Biologie van diertaxonomische groepen (algemeen)