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Coastal zone management --- Ecosystem management --- Coastal biodiversity conservation --- Coastal ecology --- Planning. --- Management --- Lake Michigan.

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Marine biological invasions. --- Coastal biodiversity conservation --- Marine habitat conservation. --- Coastal zone management --- Global environmental change. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Environmental aspects.

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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"-- Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach—which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations—in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa—negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life.In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?

Coastal biodiversity conservation --- Coastal zone management --- Coral reef conservation --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Coral reefs and islands --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Coastal engineering --- Coast biodiversity conservation --- Coastal biodiversity --- Coastal zone biodiversity conservation --- Conservation of coastal biodiversity --- Biodiversity conservation --- Conservation --- Management --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Azië --- J7510 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general)

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With the participation of more than 100 specialists in coastal marine benthic research, the book presents methodological proposals for continuous and long-term monitoring of existing benthic ecosystems on the Brazilian coast. Given that the Coastal Benthic Habitats Monitoring Network (ReBentos) proposes to monitor this environment continuously and by the largest number of research groups, covering as completely as possible the entire latitudinal variation of the coast, the methods presented were defined looking for promptness, simplicity of procedures and low cost, favouring its wide application. From this product, all researchers, whether or not linked to ReBentos, will be able to develop, in a standardized and comparative way, research with different benthic habitats in the different regions of the Brazilian coast.

Climatic changes. --- Coastal biodiversity. --- Coast biodiversity --- Coastal biological diversity --- Coastal zone biodiversity --- Diversity, Coastal biological --- Biodiversity --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change --- SCIENCE

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The number of species found at a given point on the planet varies by orders of magnitude, yet large-scale gradients in biodiversity appear to follow some very general patterns. Little mechanistic theory has been formulated to explain the emergence of observed gradients of biodiversity both on land and in the oceans. Based on a comprehensive empirical synthesis of global patterns of species diversity and their drivers, A Theory of Global Biodiversity develops and applies a new theory that can predict such patterns from few underlying processes. The authors show that global patterns of biodiversity fall into four consistent categories, according to where species live: on land or in coastal, pelagic, and deep ocean habitats. The fact that most species groups, from bacteria to whales, appear to follow similar biogeographic patterns of richness within these habitats points toward some underlying structuring principles. Based on empirical analyses of environmental correlates across these habitats, the authors combine aspects of neutral, metabolic, and niche theory into one unifying framework. Applying it to model terrestrial and marine realms, the authors demonstrate that a relatively simple theory that incorporates temperature and community size as driving variables is able to explain divergent patterns of species richness at a global scale. Integrating ecological and evolutionary perspectives, A Theory of Global Biodiversity yields surprising insights into the fundamental mechanisms that shape the distribution of life on our planet.

Biodiversity. --- PET. --- ambient energy. --- ambient temperature. --- biodiversity drivers. --- biodiversity hotspots. --- biodiversity loss. --- biodiversity patterns. --- biodiversity research. --- biodiversity. --- biogeographic patterns. --- coastal biodiversity. --- coastal habitat. --- community size. --- deep-sea biodiversity. --- deep-sea habitat. --- ecological theory. --- empirical data. --- evolution. --- global biodiversity. --- global distribution. --- global patterns. --- global theory. --- habitat. --- macroecological patterns. --- marine biodiversity. --- marine pelagic biodiversity. --- metabolic theory. --- metacommunity model. --- neutral theory. --- niche theory. --- pelagic habitat. --- potential evapotranspiration. --- spatial metacommunity model. --- species diversity. --- species richness. --- temperature. --- terrestrial biodiversity. --- terrestrial habitat. --- unimodal pattern.