Ecological Geography of the Sea

7 ¼ X 10 ¼ in Preface Ch. 1 Towards an Ecological Geography of the Sea - Progressive exploration of oceanic and shelfecosystems - The availability of timely global data from satellites - Internal dynamics of satellite-observed algal blooms Ch.2 Changing views of how marine ecosystems function -F rom pristine to modified ecosystems -Our new understanding of the role of very small organisms Ch.3 Biogeographic Data in Ecological Analysis -Taxonomic diversity, the shifting base-line of biogeography - The useful results from 150 yea rs of marine biogeography *Biogeographic regions of the pel agos *Benthis and demersal biogeography *The b enthic paradox and polar reproductive strategy Ch.4 Ocean f ronts and other ecological discontinuities -Fronts and fron tal systems *Oceanic fronts *Shelf-edge and up welling fronts *River plumes and tidal fronts of shelf seas
*The ubiquitous ‘horizontal front’ at the shallow pycnocli