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Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis: Questions, Conceptions and Red Threads -- Chapter 2. Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective -- Part II. Ecological Structures and Functions of the German Baltic Sea Coast -- Chapter 3. The Abiotic Background: Climatic, Hydrological and Geological Conditions of the Southern Baltic -- Chapter 4. Geological and Sedimentary Conditions -- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: The Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: Shoreline Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem and Landscape Functions of the Coast: Recent Research Results -- Chapter 8: Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants -- Part III. Ecological Structures and Functions of Coastal Water and Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 9. Introducing the Ecological Aspects -- Chapter 10. Baltic Sea Aquatic Ecosystems in a Gradient from Land to Open Sea -- Chapter 11. Comparison of Abiotic Parameters and Dominant Primary Producers Between the Two Main Investigation Areas -- Chapter 12. Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain -- Chapter 13. Carbon Fluxes/Food-Webs: Effect of Macrophytes on Food Web Characteristics in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 14. Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters -- Chapter 15. Patterns of Bioturbation and Associated Matter Fluxes -- Chapter 16. Seasonal Aspects and Short-Term Variability of the Pelagic Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Long-Term Trends of the Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 18. Nutrient and Limitation Regimes in Coastal Water Ecosystems -- Part IV. Combining the Aspects: Ecosystem Service Assessment -- Chapter 19. The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 20. Introduction: The Concept of Ecosystem Service Assessment Applied to Coastal Systems -- Chapter 21. The Missing Links in Ecosystem Service Research -- Chapter 22. Eudaimonic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 24. Spatial Ecosystem Service Assessment Across the Land-Sea-Interface -- Chapter 25. Temporal Changes in Aquatic Ecosystem Services Provision: Approach and Examples -- Chapter 26. Assessing Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions: Conceiving Future Pathways -- Part V. Synthesis: Assessment as a Tool for Managing Coastal Ecosystems? -- Chapter 27. Applying the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 28. Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Production: An Outcome of Ecosystem Functions and Ecological Integrity in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 29. Ecosystem Service Assessment in European Coastal and Marine Policies -- Chapter 30. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development: The Case for Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European pearl mussel: background information and literature review -- Chapter 3. Materials and methods -- Chapter 4. Results -- Chapter 5. Discussion -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Marine Population Genomics: Challenges and Opportunities -- Part II: Marine Microbes -- Part III: Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Biogeography -- Population Genomics of Marine Zooplankton -- Population Genomics of Early-Splitting Lineages of Metazoans -- Population Genomics and Biogeography of the Northern Acorn Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides) Using Pooled Sequencing Approaches -- Part IV: Seascape Genomics -- Seascape Genomics: Contextualizing Adaptive and Neutral Genomic Variation in the Ocean Environment -- Part V: Adaptation, Acclimation, and Speciation -- Clinal Adaptation in the Marine Environment -- The Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation: Lessons from Threespine Stickleback -- Mechanisms of Adaptive Divergence and Speciation in Littorina saxatilis: Integrating Knowledge from Ecology and Genetics with New Data Emerging from Genomic Studies -- Ecological Speciation in Corals -- Environmental Epigenomics and Its Applications in Marine Organisms -- Part VI: Protection, Conservation, and Management of Marine Organisms -- Marine Invasion Genomics: Revealing Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Biological Invasions -- Population Genomics Applied to Fishery Management and Conservation -- Marine Conservation and Marine Protected Areas -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.

Description / Table of Contents: Antarctic Seaweeds: Biogeography, Adaptation and Ecosystem Services -- Diversity of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Biogeographic Processes Influencing Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Seaweeds -- Detached Seaweeds as Important Dispersal Agents Across the Southern Ocean.-Biogeography of Antarctic Seaweeds Facing Climate Changes -- Comparative Phylogeography of Antarctic Seaweeds: Genetic Consequences of Historical Climatic Variations -- Underwater Light Environment of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Production and Biomass of Seaweeds in Newly Ice-Free Areas: Implications for Coastal Processes in a Changing Antarctic Environment -- Carbon Balance Under a Changing Light Environment -- Life History Strategies, Photosynthesis and Stress Tolerance in Propagules of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Form and Function in Antarctic Seaweeds: Photobiological Adaptations, Zonation Patterns and Ecosystem Feedbacks -- Successional Processes in Antarctic Benthic Algae -- Seaweed-Herbivore Interactions: Grazing as Biotic Filtering in Intertidal Antarctic Ecosystems -- Diversity and Functioning of Antarctic Seaweed Microbiomes -- Seaweeds in the Antarctic Marine Coastal Food Web -- Trophic Networks and Ecosystem Functioning -- Chemical Mediation of Antarctic Macroalgal-Grazer Interactions -- Brown Algal Phlorotannins: An Overview of their Functional Roles.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Pesticide and xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic organisms -- 2. Endocrine disrupting activity of xenobiotics in aquatic animals -- 3. Water contamination through xenobiotics and their toxic effects on aquatic animals -- 4. Cypermethrin induced reproductive toxicity in zebrafish: biochemical and molecular perspective -- 5. Impact of Pesticides Application on Aquatic Environments And Biodiversity -- 6. Impact of microplastics on reproductive and physiological aspects of aquatic inhabitants -- 7. The Impact of Xenobiotics in Development & Reproduction of fresh water Fishes -- 8. Mixtures and Reproduction in Aquatic Organisms – benefits and challenges -- 9. Phytoestrogens as Endocrine-Disrupting Agents In Aquaculture -- 10. A Proteomic Approach to Studying the Effects of Xenobiotics on Aquatic Living Organisms -- 11. Role of Cytochrome P450 in xenobiotic metabolism in fishes -- 12. Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic modelling of Xenobiotics: Fate and effect in Aquatic Animals -- 13. Occurrence of xenoestrogen alkylphenols (Octylphenols and Nonylphenol), and its impact on the aquatic ecosystem -- 14. Xenobiotics' effect on fish reproduction and development -- 15. Scientometric analysis of ecotoxicological investigations of xenobiotics in aquatic animals -- 16. Toxic effects of nanomaterials on aquatic animals and their future prospective -- 17. Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic organisms: An Ecotoxicological perspective -- 18. Effect of xenobiotics and their degradation in aquatic life -- 19. Transcriptome analysis of aquatic species exposed to endocrine disruptors -- 20. Fundamentals of genotoxicity and antiparasitic drugs associated with genotoxicity in fish -- 21. Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) as emerging aquatic contaminants: Emphasis on Reproduction and Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Christopher Clark and Ellen Garland -- Ch 1: Overview. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 2: Anatomy and physiology. Joy Reidenberg -- Ch. 3: Movement, Residency & Migration. Alex Zerbini and Sue Moore,- Ch. 4: Feeding strategies. Ari Friedlaender -- Ch. 5: Molecular genetics. Emma Carroll -- Ch. 6: Social organization. Peter Tyack -- Ch. 7: Ethological and bioacoustic variability. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 8: Baleen whale culture. Ellen Garland and Emma Carroll -- Ch. 9: Blue whale – Global diversity & behavioral variability in a specialist. Ana Sirovic -- Ch. 10: Humpback whale – Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Rebecca Dunlop -- Ch. 11: Humpback whale song - Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Danielle Cholewiak, Sal Cerchio and Ellen Garland -- Ch. 12: Bowhead whale – Acoustic variability in the almost-a-right whale that went north. Kate Stafford -- Ch. 13: Right whales - From north to south, what’s the big difference? Susan Parks -- Ch. 14: Minke Whale – Diversity and variability. Denise Risch -- Ch. 15: Omura’s Whale – An enigma. Sal Cerchio. .

Description / Table of Contents: The Coral Tree at the End of the World: Introductory Notes to Coralline Mythology and Folklore from the Indian and Pacific oceans -- The Marine Animal Forests Of South Africa: Importance For Bioregionalisation And Marine Spatial Planning -- Coral and reef fish communities in the thermally extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into potential climate change effects -- Marginal reefs in the Anthropocene: they are not Noah’s Ark -- Animal Forests in Submarine Caves -- The Tubeworm Forests of Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps -- Bryozoans: the ‘forgotten’ bioconstructors -- Polychaetes as habitat former: structure and function -- Chemical war in marine animal forests: Natural products and chemical interactions -- The nursery role of marine animal forests -- From Trees To Octocorals: The Role Of Self-Thinning And Shading In Underwater Animal Forests -- Marine animal forests as Carbon immobilizers or why we should preserve these three-dimensional alive structures -- Invasive alien species and their effects on marine animal forests -- Plastics, an additional threat for coral ecosystems -- Visual methods for monitoring mesophotic-to-deep reefs and animal forests: finding a compromise between analytical effort and result quality -- Advances in the Marine Animal Forests Scientific Outreach and Citizen Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Lake Alchichica: History of Human Settlements -- Chapter 2 Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater -- Chapter 3 Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years -- Chapter 4 Recent Climate of Serdán-Oriental Basin -- Chapter 5 Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Serdán-Oriental Basin and the Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 6 Meteorological Regime, Local Climate, and Hydrodynamics of Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 7 Physicochemical Characteristics -- Chapter 8 The Littoral Environment -- Chapter 9 Aquatic Vegetation -- Chapter 10 The Littoral Community -- Chapter 11 Bacterioplankton -- Chapter 12 -- Phytoplankton of Alchichica: A Unique Community for an Oligotrophic Lake -- Chapter 13 Protozooplankton -- Chapter 14 Metazooplankton: The Joys and Challenges of Living in a Saline, Oligotrophic, Warm Monomictic Lake -- Chapter 15 Alchichica Silverside -- Chapter 16 -- The Axolotl of Alchichica -- Chapter 17 The Deep Benthic Zone. - Chapter 18 Lake Metabolism. - Chapter 19 Lake Food Webs -- Chapter 20 Diversity and Endemisms -- Chapter 21 Conservation Actions -- Chapter 22 Microbialites: Diversity Hotspots in the Mexican Plateau -- Chapter 23 The Lake Alchichica from an Astrobiological Perspective -- Chapter 24 Lake Alchichica Traditions, Myths, and Legends: Interviews with Local Residents. .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Evolution of Bilateria from a Meiofauna Perspective – Miniaturization in the Focus -- Chapter 2: Meiofauna Shaping Biogeochemical Processes -- Chapter 3: Meiofauna and Biofilms – the Slimy Universe -- Chapter 4: Meiofauna Meets Microbes: Chemosynthetic Symbioses -- Chapter 5: Marine Meiofauna Diversity and Biogeography – Paradigms and challenges -- Chapter 6: Freshwater Meiofauna – a Biota with Different Rules? -- Chapter 7: Hidden Players – Meiofauna Mediates Ecosystem Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Ocean -- Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Meiofauna – a World of its Own or Deeply Connected? -- Chapter 9: Polar Meiofauna – Antipoles or Parallels? -- Chapter 10: Cave Meiofauna - Models for Ecology and Evolution -- Chapter 11: Meiofauna – Adapted to Life at the Limits -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Evolution – Analisa Berta -- Sensory and cognition – Tentative Colleen Reichmuth and others -- Communication – Isabelle Charrier -- Physiology – Dan Crocker -- Movement – Luis Huckstadt and Ryan Reisinger -- Navigation – Patrick Robinson -- Foraging ecology and behavior – Don Bowen -- Reproductive behavior and lactation strategies – Dan Costa and Jen Maresh -- Breeding behavior – Paddy Pomeroy and Kelly Robinson -- Conservation – Samantha Simmons and others.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Marine Biotechnology: A Frontier for the Discovery of Nutraceuticals, Energy, and Its Role in Meeting 21st Century Food Demands -- 2. Biotechnological Utilization of the Marine Environment for Food, Drugs and Energy -- 3. Grouper Hybridization: An Effective Biotechnological Tool for Food Security -- 4. The Application of Molecular Markers to Fish Breeding and Aquaculture -- 5. Aquaculture and Applications of Green Seaweeds of the Genus Caulerpa J.V. Lamouroux, 1809 -- 6. Potential and Challenges of Sea Cucumber Holothuria Scabra Mariculture in Sabah, Malaysia -- 7. Sea Cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) Species Diversity on the West Coast of Sabah, Malaysia -- 8. Sea Cucumbers: Source of Nutritional, Medicinal, and Cosmeceutical Products -- 9. Marine Biotechnology and its Applications in Drug Discovery -- 10. Bacteriophage as Therapeutic Strategy Against Pathogenic Vibrio -- 11. Bacterial Diversity in the Marine Environment and the Cutting-edge Tools for Isolation, Identification, and Characterization of the Marine Microbiome -- 12. Biotechnological Applications of Jellyfish-Derived Products -- 13. Application of Biotechnology in White Syndrome Coral Disease Identification -- 14. The Synergy of Remote Sensing in Marine Invasion Science -- 15. The Utilization of Agro-based Wastes by Marine Phototrophic Microbes -- 16. Artificial Intelligence Methods in Marine Biotechnology.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- Vertebrates of Upper Mesopotamia: Present Evidence and Archaeological Data -- Fishing Gears and Methods: A Comparison of Ancient Mesopotamia and Other Ancient Worlds -- Ichthyological Characteristics Available in the Fish Images Existed in the Art of the Ancient Mesopotamia -- The Effectiveness of Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Practices: The Example of šūšu-Licorice -- Part II. The Abiotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Management of Water Resources Using Storage Reservoirs -- Estimation of Irrigated Agricultural Area and Water Consumption in Iraq -- The Nature of Tigris–Euphrates Rivers Flow: Current Status and Future Prospective -- Streamflow Alteration Impacts with Particular Reference to the Lower Zab River, Tributary of the Tigris River -- Ecohydrology in Iraq: Challenges and its Future Pathways -- Oil Pollution in the Shatt Al-Arab River and its Estuary 1980–2018 -- Pesticides in the Waters, Sediments, and Biota of the Shatt Al-Arab River for the Period 1980–2017 -- Surface Water Salinity of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Shatt al-Arab Rivers -- Renewable Energy for Water–Energy Nexus in Euphrates and Tigris River Basin: A Literature Review -- Impacts of Dams on Aquatic Biodiversity, Fisheries, Fishes and Their Environment: Problems that Could Be Present in Iraq with Recommendations -- Water, Politics and Dams in the Mesopotamia Basin of the Northern Middle East: How Turkey Instrumentalises the South-Eastern Anatolia Project for Political, Military and Strategic Interests -- Dams and their Impacts on Fishes in Iran -- Part III. The Biotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Preliminary Review of the Aquatic Biodiversity in Al-Kahla River, Missan Province, Iraq -- Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in Iraq: Importance, Threats, Status, and Conservation Challenges -- Effect of Climate Changes on the Freshwater Biodiversity in the Mesopotamian Plain: Recommendations for Avoidance and Plans for the Future -- River Corridors as a Refuge for Freshwater Biodiversity: Basic Information and Recommendations to the Policymakers for Possible Implications in Iraq -- Biodiversity of Fungi in Aquatic Environment of Iraq -- Potability of Drinking Water in Basra-Iraq -- Algal Studies in Iraqi Inland Waters. A Review -- The Distribution of Epilitic Diatoms in the Turkish Part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin -- Plant Biodiversity in Shatt Al-Arab Estuary and Ecological Variations -- Medicinal Plants of Shatt al-Arab River and Adjacent Area -- The Role of Plants as a Canopy in the Inland Waters: Basic Information for Application in Iraq -- The Zooplankton Fauna of the Turkish Part of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin -- Kinds and Distribution of Icthyoplankton in Shatt Al-Arab River -- Rotifer Diversity in Iranian Waters: A Review -- Biodiversity of the Freshwater Amphipods in Iran -- The Freshwater Molluscs of the Mesopotamian Plain -- Freshwater Annelida of Iraq -- A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages -- Fish Fauna of Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq: A More than Quarter a Century of Changes -- The Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio: Effect on the Environment and the Indigenous Fish Species in Iraq -- The Good and the Bad in Releasing the Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella in the Freshwater System: Recommendations for the Policymakers in Iraq -- The Avifauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- The Feasible Approaches to Assist Migratory Birds Visiting the Southern Reaches of Mesopotamia -- A Proposal for Establishing Bird Observatory Centre in the South of Iraq -- The Potential Role of Waterbirds as a Vector in Dispersing Invertebrates and Plants in the South of Iraq -- The Wild Mammals of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Basin -- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Euphrates and Tigris Basin -- A Preliminary Pictorial Guide to the Herpetofauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- Policy Guidance for Sustainable Aquaculture in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- How Possible to Use the Desert Area in Iraq for Aquaculture Industry: Basic Facts and Recommondations -- Aquaculture Industry in Iraq: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- Towards an Improved Tilapia Farming in Iraq: Recommendations for Future Application -- Information and Recommendations of Aquaculture Stress and its Source in Hatcheries: The Iraqi Aquaculture Industry Investors -- Exotic and Invasive Freshwater Fishes in the Tigris-Euphrates River System -- Part IV. Water Resources -- The Ecology and Modelling of the Freshwater Ecosystems in Iran -- Enhancing Rural Women’s Participation in Fisheries in Iraq -- The Impact of Destructive Fishing Gear on the Fish Biodiversity in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Evaluating Variations in Fisheries by Means of Fishers’ Information: Suggested Methodology to Improve Small-Scale Fisheries in Rivers in Iraq -- A Possibility to Apply a Traditional Fisheries Enforcement Programme in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Market-Resource Relations and Fish Seller Livelihood as Seen in Inland Waters of Iraq -- The Potential Impact of Deformities in Fishes upon Aquatic Production: Case of Iraq -- The Impact of some Social Taboos on Fisheries in Iraq -- Inland Water Fishes and Fisheries in Iran -- The Possibility of Introducing an Inland Fisheries Education in Iraq -- The Marine and Diadromous Fisheries of Iraq -- Part V. Stress of the Environment of the Two Rivers -- Fish Deformities in the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq: A Short Review and a Study Case on the Indian Catfish Heteropneustes fossilis -- The Phenomenon of Fluctuating Asymmetry: As Fish Welfare Indicator Represented by Case Study from the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq -- The Studies on Sediments Pollution by Different Types of Metals in Turkey -- Macroplastic and Microplastic in the Freshwater Environment of Southern Iraq: Evidences Obtained from Freshwater Fish Species -- Heavy Metals in Freshwater Invertebrates of Iran: A Review on the Bioaccumulation and Effects -- Fish Parasites of Tigris and Euphrates River Systems -- The Parasites of Fishes of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers: Iraq and Turkey -- Ornamental Fishes: A Looming Danger for Inland Fish Diversity of Iraq -- Part VI. The Health of the Human Community Inhabiting Freshwater Zones -- Aquatic Snails as a Vector of Diseases to the Human in Iran -- Death by Drowning in Rivers in Iraq -- The Dangerous Catfish Species in the Freshwater System of Iraq: First Time Reports on Cases of Envenomation -- Fish Species of the Order Cypriniformes as a Source of Ichthyootoxin and Ichthyogallotoxin in Iraq: Cases Reports -- First Reports on Cases of Hallucinatory Fish Poisoning (Ichthyoallyeinotoxism) and Scombrotoxic Fish Poisoning in Iraq -- Part. VII. Conservation -- Freshwater Management and Conservation in Iran: Past, Present, and Future -- The Need of Biodiversity Conservation Strategies in Iraq: The State of Protected Areas -- Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Turkey -- Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation in Iraq: Recommendations for Management -- Utilising Phenotypic Difference to Regulate Protection Value: A Scheme for Application of a Novel Approach to the Inland Water of Iraq -- Hatchery-Reared Fish Stocks Released into the Wild: A Conservation Problem as Seen in a Case Study from Iraq -- Part VIII. Social Perspectives -- Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? An Appraisal of the Four Decades of Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) -- Part IX. Food Security -- How Possible to Build Rice–Fish Farming in Iraq in order to Support Food Security Plan: Positive and the Negative Aspects -- The Importance of Non-commercial and Small-Sized Fish Species: A Proposal for an Additional Revenue to Iraq -- Sociocultural Aspects Influence Food Consumption Habits in Iraq: Management of Food Security -- A Preliminary Investigation of Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Basrah Province, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_ Recent developments in Biosensor Technology for Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 2_Application of CRISPR-Cas9 Technology in Fish -- Chapter 3_ Nano-technological applications in Aquatic Health Management -- Chapter 4_Phenotypic plasticity and transgenerational immune priming: opportunities and potential in fisheries -- Chapter 5_Heat shock proteins in stress response: a promising tool for fish health management -- Chapter 6_Immunostimulants: Boon for disease management in Aquaculture -- Chapter 7_Molecular markers and their application in fisheries and aquaculture -- Chapter 8_Applications of Electronics in Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 9_Metatranscriptomics: A tool to study the host-microbe interactions and functional profile of fish intestinal microbiota under changing environmental conditions -- Chapter 10_Bioremediation and its application in aquaculture -- Chapter 11_Application of Probiotics in Aquaculture -- Chapter 12_Identifying novel antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs): Important aspect of metagenomic research.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_ An Introduction to the Functions and Ecosystems Services associated with aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 2_ Factors structuring Aquatic Macrophytes -- Chapter 3_ Aquatic Macrophytes: Ecology, Function and Services in Niger Delta, Nigeria -- Chapter 4_ Environmental and Ecological Importance of Indian Aquatic Macrophytes -- Chapter 5_ Macrophytes used as complementary medicines for curing human ailments to facilitate livelihood opportunities -- Chapter 6_ Macrophytes and their role in wetland ecosystems -- Chapter 7_ Ecotoxicology of REEs in aquatic macrophytes and prospect for bioremediation of REEs -- Chapter 8_ Efficiency of Aquatic Plants for Remediation of Wastewater -- Chapter 9_ Phytoremediation of organic contaminants: An ecofriendly approach based application of aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 10_ Remediation of heavy metals by different aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 11_ Translocations of heavy metals in aquatic macrophytes naturally grown in the riverine ecosystem -- Chapter 12_ Enhanced Effluent Treatment and Bioelectricity Generation Using Coupled Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell (CW-MFC) Technology: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 13_ Role of microbial communities and aquatic macrophytes in constructed wetlands for tannery wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 14_ Role of plant-bacteria association in constructed wetlands for the removal of iron (Fe) from contaminated water. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Insights from Cuban Coral Reefs -- Part II. History -- Chapter 2. Research History of Corals and Coral Reefs in Cuba -- Part III. Description -- Chapter 3. Physical-Geographic Characteristics of Cuban Reefs -- Chapter 4. Outline of the Geology, Geomorphology and Evolution of the Late Qua-ternary Shelf and Uplifted Marine Terraces of Cuba; Tectonic and Sea Level Control of Present Day Coral Reef Distribution -- Chapter 5. A Remote Sensing Appraisal of the Extent and Geomorphological Diversity of the Coral Reefs of Cuba -- Part IV. Biota -- Chapter 6. Macrophytes Associated with Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 7. Sponges: Conspicuous Inhabitants of the Cuban Coral Reefs and Their Potential as Bioindicators of Contamination -- Chapter 8. Species List of Cuban Stony Corals: Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia; Class Hydrozoa, Suborders Capitata and Filifera -- Chapter 9. Octocoral Forests: Distribution, Abundance, and Species Richness in Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 10. Current State of Knowledge of Reef Mollusks in Cuba -- Chapter 11. Herbivory on Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 12. Chronology of the Lionfish Invasion in Cuba and Evaluation of Impacts on Native Reef Fishes -- Chapter 13. Sharks and Rays in Cuban Coral Reefs: Ecology, Fisheries, and Conservation -- Chapter 14. Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba -- Part V. Ecology, Conservation and Management -- Chapter 15. Status of Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 16. Population Genetics of Cuba’s Scleractinian Corals -- Chapter 17. Multiple Cumulative Effects on Coral Reefs of the Northwestern Cuban Region -- Chapter 18. Guanahacabibes National Park: Research, Monitoring and Man-Agement for the Conservation of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 19. Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve: Integrating Science with the Management of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 20. Coral Reefs in Cuban Marine Protected Areas -- Part VI. Economic Valuation -- Chapter 21. Economic Valuation of the Coral Reefs of Jardines de la Reina and Punta Francés National Parks, Cuba -- Chapter 22. The Economic Value of Coral Reefs in the Context of Marine Protected Areas: Experiences of the South Cuban Archipelago Project -- Chapter 23. Fish Can Be More Valuable Alive Than Dead.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. A Global View of the Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World -- Chapter 2. Biology, Ecology and Threats to Cold-Water Corals on Brazil’s Deep-Sea Margin -- Chapter 3. Cold-Water Corals of the World: Gulf of Mexico -- Chapter 4. Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the Southeastern United States -- Chapter 5. Norwegian Coral Reefs -- Chapter 6. Waters of Ireland and the UK -- Chapter 7. Life and Death of Cold-Water Corals across the Mediterranean Sea -- Chapter 8. Cold-Water Coral Reefs in the Oxygen Minimum Zones off West Africa -- Chapter 9. New Zealand: South West Pacific Region -- Chapter 10. Deep-Sea Corals of the North and Central Pacific Seamounts.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Fish Resources and Fishing Areas of the Western Balkans -- Chapter 1. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Slovenia, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Chapter 2. Inland Fisheries in Croatia: Historical Aspects, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 3. Fish Resources and Fisheries in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Overview, Sustainability, and Conservation -- Chapter 4. Inland Fisheries in Serbia: Historical Aspect, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 5. The Freshwater Fish Resources and Freshwater Fisheries of Montenegro, Management, Sustainability and Conservation – With a Special Perspective on Lake Skadar -- Chapter 6. Fish and Fisheries of the Republic of North Macedonia, Current Situation and Its Perspective -- Chapter 7. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Albania, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Part II. Some Fish Species of the Western Balkans Important for Fisheries and Conservation -- Chapter 8. Freshwater Crayfish of Western Balkan: Is It Possible to Use Them Sustainably or Do They Need Prompt Conservation Actions? -- Chapter 9. Salmonid Fish Species – Opportunities for Sustainable Use under Multiple Pressures and Current Climatic Change -- Chapter 10. Past and Future of Sturgeon Species (Acipenseridae) in Western Balkans – Case for Permanent Conservation or Sustainable Management -- Part III. Effects of Stressors on Inland Water Ecosystems and Fish Resources -- Chapter 11. Eutrophication of Fishing Waters and the Influence of Cyanobacterial Occurrence and Blooming on Fish Resources – Case Studies in Serbia -- Chapter 12. Pollution of Fishing Waters of the Western Balkan – Potentially Toxic Elements and Their Impact on the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources -- Chapter 13. Invasive Macroinvertebrate and Fish Species and Their Impact on Fish Resources: A Case Study on Fishing Waters of Serbia -- Part IV. Fish Stock Assessment Methods -- Chapter 14. A Brief Overview of the Development of the ES-HIPPO Model for Assessing the Sustainability and Conservation Priorities of Fish, Fish Resources, and Inland Water Habitats -- Part V. Conservation and Aquaculture -- Chapter 15. Тhe Role and Importance of Aquaculture for the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources in the Inland Water of Serbia -- Chapter 16. Huchen Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758) in Croatia: Distribution, Genetic Diversity, Threats and Conservation -- Chapter 17. Future Perspective of Sustainable Development of Freshwater Fisheries and Conservation of Threatened Fish Species, Crustaceans and Molluscs -- Part VI. Social Aspect -- Chapter 18. Political and Socio-Economic aspects of Fisheries in Inland and Coastal Waters of the Western Balkan -- Chapter 19. Fish Resources of the Western Balkans, Sustainable Use and/or Conservation?.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. The Lake Charr: Biology, Ecology, Distribution, and Management -- Distribution -- Paleoecology -- Ecological Diversity -- Genetic Diversity -- Habitat -- Movement Ecology and Behavior -- Life History and Population Dynamics -- Trophic Ecology -- Reproduction -- Contaminants and Ecotoxicology -- A General, Life History Based Model for Sustainable Exploitation of Lake Charr across their Range -- Terminology Issues in Lake Charr Early Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Using the Concepts and Tools of Social Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Services to Advance the Practice of Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part II. Foundational Concepts -- Advancing Aquatic Ecosystem-Based Management with Full Consideration of the Social-Ecological System -- Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice -- From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’ -- The Promise and Pitfalls of Ecosystem Services Classification and Valuation -- Approaches for Estimating the Supply of Ecosystem Services: Concepts for Ecosystem-Based Management in Coastal and Marine Environments -- The Final Ecosystem Goods & Services (FEGS) Approach: A Beneficiary-Centric Method to Support Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part III. Tools and Techniques -- Ecosystem-Based Management and Natural Capital Accounting -- Establishing a Common Framework for Strategic Communications in Ecosystem-Based Management and the Natural Science -- Prioritizing Stakeholders, Beneficiaries, and Environmental Attributes: A Tool for Ecosystem-Based Management -- Linkage Frameworks: An Exploration Tool for Complex Systems in Ecosystem-Based Management -- Projecting Changes to Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystem Goods and Services – Models and Tools -- An Integrated Multi-Model Decision Support Framework for Evaluating Ecosystem-Based Management Options for Coupled Human-Natural Systems -- Mathematical Modeling for Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Assessment -- The Ecosystem Services Gradient: A Descriptive Model for Identifying Levels of Meaningful Change -- Rapid Benefit Indicator Tools -- Part IV. Governance -- The Ecosystem Approach in International Marine Environmental Law and Governance -- Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Services in EU Law, Policy and Governance -- Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Law and Governance for the Ecosystem-Based Management Practitioner -- Unravelling the Relationship between Ecosystem-Based Management, Integrated Coastal Zone Management And Marine Spatial Planning -- Part V. Case Studies -- Models and Mapping Tools to Inform Resilience Planning After Disasters: A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy and Long Island Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem-Based Management to Support Conservation and Restoration Efforts in the Danube Basin -- Combining Methods to Establish Potential Management Measures for Invasive Species Elodea nutallii in Lough Erne Northern Ireland -- Mitigating Negative Unintended Impacts on Biodiversity in the Natura 2000 Vouga Estuary (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal) -- Ecosystem-Based Management for More Effective and Equitable Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study on the Faial-Pico Channel Marine Protected Area, Azores -- Using Stakeholder Engagement, Translational Science and Decision Support Tools for Ecosystem-Based Management in the Florida Everglades -- Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization: Engaging Communities to Support Ecosystem-Based Management and Improve Human Wellbeing at Clean-up Sites -- Predicting Future Vegetated Landscapes Under Climate Change: Application of the Environmental Stratification Methodology to Protected Areas in the Lower Mekong Basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Diversity, Distribution, and Biology of Sea Cucumber -- Nutritional Components of Sea Cucumber and the Biochemical Characteristics of Autolytic Enzymes -- The Functional Components of Sea Cucumber and their Nutritional and Biological Activities -- Traditional Processing Technologies and Products of Sea Cucumber: Historical Review -- The Pretreatment Technology of Raw Sea Cucumber and New Processing Technology of Salted Sea Cucumber -- The New Processing Technology of Dried Sea Cucumber Products -- Ready-to-Eat Sea Cucumber Products and Collagen Stabilization Technology -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Sulfated Polysaccharides from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Functional Lipids from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Collagen Peptides from Sea Cucumber -- The Quality Management Systems and Standards of Sea Cucumber Products -- Food Safety Issues and Regulatory Requirements of Sea Cucumber Products and Their Internationalization.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geological history and transition of the biota of Lake Biwa -- 2. Biodiversity of Lake Biwa -- 3. Ecological changes in Lake Biwa -- 4. History of the relationship between people and Lake Biwa -- 5.The use of Lake Biwa and people’s lifestyle -- 6. Evolving issues toward improvement of Lake Biwa – Yodo river basin governance -- 7. Environmental conservation of Lake Biwa.

Description / Table of Contents: Chance, Choice and Cichlids -- Frontiers in Cichlid Research: A History of Scientific Advancement -- Ecological Opportunity, Genetic Variation, and the Origins of African Cichlid Radiations -- Evolution in the Fast Lane: Diversity, Ecology, and Speciation of Cichlids in the lower Congo River -- Neotropical Riverine Cichlids: Adaptive Radiation and Macroevolution at Continental Scales -- Sympatric and Allopatric Diversification in the Adaptive Radiation of Midas Cichlids in Nicaraguan Lakes -- The Consequences of Anthropogenic Stressors on Cichlid Fish Communities: Revisiting Lakes Victoria, Kyoga, and Nabugabo -- Rapid Evolutionary Responses in Cichlids: Genetics of Adaptation, Morphology and Taxonomic Implications -- Identifying and Conserving Tilapiine Cichlid Species in the 21st Century -- Introduced Cichlids in the Americas: Distribution Patterns, Invasion Ecology, and Impacts -- The Evolutionary Ecology of Cichlid Vision -- The Mechanosensory Lateral Line System of Cichlid Fishes: From Anatomy to Behavior -- Sonic Cichlids -- The Evolution of Enhanced Cichlid Hearing: Functional Morphology and the Role of Ecoacoustical Factors -- Parental Care in Cichlid Fishes -- Cichlids as a model system for studying social behaviour and evolution -- Integrative Neurobiology of Social Behavior in Cichlid Fish -- Respiratory Ecology of Cichlids -- Feeding Ecology of Lake Tanganyika Cichlids -- Patterns of Trophic Evolution: Integration and Modularity of the Cichlid Skull -- An Evo-devo View of Post-genomic African Cichlid Biology: Enhanced Models for Evolution and Biomedicine.

Description / Table of Contents: Standing up to Climate Change ̶ Creating Prospects for a Sustainable Future in Rural Iran -- Part I. Water and Land Use Challenges in Iran -- Water Resources and Water Security in the MENA Region -- Water Management in Iran: Appearance and Reality -- Contemporary Water Resource Management and Its Role in Tackling Land Degradation and Desertification in Iran -- Part II. Water and Land Use Challenges in the Zayandeh Rud Basin -- Zayandeh Rud River Basin: A Region of Economic and Social Relevance in the Central Plateau of Iran -- Returning Periods of Drought and Climate Change in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Hydrological Modelling of Spatial and Temporal Changes of Blue and Green Water Resources in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Part III. Water and Land Use Challenges in the Roodasht Region -- Realizing the Dynamic of Water Scarcity, Land Use Change and Environmental Degradation in Roodasht, Iran -- Structural Evolution of the Zayandeh Rud River Basin Based on Historical Climate Changes -- Evaluation of Lead and Cadmium Contamination in the Zayandeh Rud River -- Dust Production Crisis Following the Recent Droughts in the Eastern Part of the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Part IV. Possible Solutions for the Region -- Participatory Development of Strategies for the Transformation of Agriculture in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Environmental Capacity Building Program for the Residents of the Zayandeh Rud Basin -- Adaptive Land and Water Management: A Regional Action Plan for Roodasht to Cope with Climate Change -- A Short Ecological History of Varzaneh: Adaptive Responses to and Resilience Against the Adversity of Drought -- Determination of Net Water Requirement of Crops and Gardens in Order to Optimize the Management of Water Demand in Agricultural Sector -- Increasing Water and Energy Productivity via Replacing Abiotic Stress Tolerant Forages in East of Zayandeh Rud River Basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The Bahía Blanca Estuary in a regional context -- Geography of the Bahía Blanca Estuary -- Physical Oceanography of the Bahía Blanca Estuary -- Bahía Blanca Estuary: a chemical oceanographic approach -- Plankton ecology and biodiversity in the Bahía Blanca Estuary -- Biology and ecology of the benthic algae -- The intertidal meiobenthos of the Bahía Blanca Estuary -- The intertidal soft-bottom macrobenthic invertebrates -- Taxonomic and functional approach of subtidal macrobenthic communities in the Bahía Blanca Estuary (Argentina) -- Shrimps and prawns -- Ecology and biology of the fish assemblages -- The Bahia Blanca Estuary and importance of the wetlands for the conservation of see turtles -- Shorebirds and Seabirds’ Ecology and Conservation -- Marine mammals: is the Bahía Blanca Estuary and its area of influence important for their conservation? -- Use of coastal area habitats by land mammals -- Coastal wetlands of the Bahía Blanca Estuary. Landscape structure and plant associations -- Environmental diagnosis of the protected coastal areas of the Bahía Blanca Estuary -- Small-scale artisanal fishers and socio-environmental conflicts in estuarine and coastal wetlands -- Estuarine environmental monitoring programs: long term studies -- Environmental education: mud and salt classrooms -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Source and Screening of Probiotic Microorganisms -- Application Methods of Probiotics and Options -- Use of Probiotics in Finfish -- Use of Probiotics in Shellfish -- Paraprobiotics in Aquaculture -- Probiotics for Controlling Infectious Diseases -- Probiotics for Biofloc System and Water Quality -- Probiotics as Vaccine Adjuvants -- Modes of Action of Probiotics -- Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Probiotics -- Quality, Safety and Regulatory Issues of Probiotics -- Methods Used for Selecting and Evaluating Probiotics -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Habitat: Sunlit Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Shady Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Dark Caves -- Habitat: Intertidal Zone -- Habitat: Sandy Grounds -- Habitat: Seagrass -- Habitat: Muddy Grounds -- Habitat: Open Waters -- Humans and the Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: The Ecology of Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems: An Overview -- Multi-scale Biophysical Factors Driving Plant Litter Dynamics in Streams -- Stoichiometry of Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems -- Global Patterns of Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Plant Litter Decomposition in Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams -- Plant Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems Compared to Streams -- Biodiversity and Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The Role of Key Plant Species on Litter Decomposition in Streams: Alder as Experimental Model -- Linking Microbial Decomposer Diversity to Plant Litter Decomposition and Associated Processes in Streams -- The Role of Macro Invertebrates on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The role of Microscopically Small Invertebrates in Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Individual and Interacting Effects of Elevated CO2, Warming, and Hydrologic Intensification on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Causes and Consequences of Changes in Riparian Vegetation for Plant Litter Decomposition Throughout River Networks -- Effects of Exotic Tree Plantations on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Salt Modulates Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems -- Pathways, Mechanisms and Consequences of Nutrient-stimulated Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- How Toxicants Influence Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The Construction of Plant Litter Decomposition Curves -- Design and Analysis of Laboratory Experiments on Aquatic Plant Litter Decomposition -- Plant Litter Decomposition as a Tool for Stream Ecosystem Assessment -- Plant Litter Decomposition as a Contributor to Stream Ecosystem Service Provision.

Description / Table of Contents: Neuroethological background of marine mammal complexity -- Social extremes and their relation to anthropogenic stress -- Lone, sociable marine mammals and their influence on human attitudes -- Efforts of conserving marine mammals (spaces excluded) -- Conserving marine mammal spaces and habitats -- Conservation relevance of marine mammal social learning and culture -- Marine mammal migrations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Processing method of the original data -- Chapter 3 Grey correlation analysis -- Chapter 4 Grey Clustering Analysis -- Chapter 5 Grey System Modeling -- Chapter 6 Grey Prediction -- Chapter 7 Grey decision-making -- Chapter 8 Grey Linear Programming -- Chapter 9 Grey Dynamic Control.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Aquaculture Productivity Enhancement through Advanced Technologies -- 2 Indigenous fishes as valued genetic resources -- 3 Applications of Next Generation Sequencing in Aquaculture and Fisheries -- 4 Genome Sequencing in Fishes -- 5 Omics in Aquaculture -- 6 Gowth Hormone Transgenesis in Aquaculture -- 7 Genome Editing in Fish Reproduction -- 8 Metabolomics: a Novel Technology for Health Management in Aquaculture -- 9 Epigenetics: Perspectives and Potential in Aquaculture -- 10 Application of Stem Cell Based Technologies in Management of Fisheries Resources -- 11 Molecular Markers in Fisheries and Aquaculture -- 12 Microsatellite Markers for Fish Conservation -- 13 Cryopreservation in Aquaculture -- 14 Nanobiotechnology: Prospects and Applications in Aquaculture -- 15 Application of Nanotechnology for Abiotic Stress Management in Aquaculture -- 16 Nutritional biotechnology to augment aquaculture production -- 17 Colour enhancement in ornamental fishes -- 18 Immunoprophylactic Measures in Aquaculture -- 19 DNA Vaccines for Fish -- 20 Bacteriophage Therapy in Aquaculture: An Overview -- 21 Disease Diagnostic Tools for Health Management in Aquaculture -- 22 Prospect and Challenges of Biofloc Technology for Sustainable Aquaculture Development -- 23 Biofilm in Aquaculture Production -- 24 Bioremediation of Aquatic Environment -- 25 Effects of Pharmaceutical Waste in Aquatic Life -- 26 Biosafety and Biosecurity for Sustainable Aquaculture Development -- 27 Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) Shrimps in Aquaculture -- 28 Enzymes from Aquatic Resources and their Application in Food and Cosmetic Industry -- 29 Biotechnological approaches to valorization of aquaculture bio-wastes and their biomedical applications. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Phenology of photosynthesis in a deciduous broadleaf forest: implications for the carbon cycle in a changing environment -- Chapter 2. Ecological significance of throughfall and stemflow to the carbon cycle in forest ecosystems -- Chapter 3.Forest carbon sequestration in mountainous region in Japan under ongoing climate change: implication for future research -- Chapter 4. Woody biomass change monitoring in temperate montane forests by airborne LiDAR analysis -- Chapter 5. Semi-natural grasslands maintained by controlled burning in Japan - Air and soil temperature and plant diversity -- Chapter 6. Detection and Identification of Phytophthora Pathogens That are Threatening Forest Ecosystems Worldwide -- Chapter 7. Water quality safety and security - from evaluation to control -- Chapter 8. Energy Recovery from Wastewater -- Chapter 9. Management of on-site household wastewater treatment systems (Johkasou) in Japan -- Chapter 10. Predicting fine sediment deposition rate in low-land river channel: Comparison of two adjacent rivers -- Chapter 11. Relationship between forest stand condition and water balance in a forested basin -- Chapter 12. Plant pathogenic oomycetes inhabiting river water are a potential source of infestation in agricultural areas -- Chapter 13. Soil contamination and conservation -- Chapter 14. Evaporation in arid regions -- Chapter 15. Feature Extraction and Analysis of Earthquake Motion -- Chapter 16. Involving the community to manage natural disasters: A study of Japanese disaster risk reduction practices.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Diatom Classifications: What Purpose Do They Serve? -- Chapter 3: Diatom Taxonomy And Identification Keys -- Chapter 4: Teratologies/Life Cycle/Ecotoxicology -- Part 2: Sensing -- Chapter 5: Microscope Lighting Techniques -- Chapter 6: Microscope Filtering Techniques -- Chapter 7: Automatization Techniques. Slide Scanning -- Part 3: Analysis -- Chapter 8: Segmentation -- Chapter 9: Feature Extraction And Classification -- Chapter 10: Multifocus And Hdr -- Chapter 11: 3d Imaging -- Chapter 12: Morphometrics -- Part 4: Applications -- Chapter 13: Water Quality Assessment -- Chapter 14: Diatoms In Forensic Analysis -- Chapter 15: Benthic Foraminifera And Diatoms As Ecological Indicators.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Introduction to the Brazilian Deep-Sea biodiversity -- 2. Water masses and oceanic circulation of the Brazilian continental margin and adjacent abyssal plain -- 3. Continental slope and submarine canyons: benthic biodiversity and human impacts -- 4. Brazilian deep-sea corals -- 5. Chemosynthetic ecosystems on the Brazilian deep-sea margin -- 6. Deep-sea microbes in the Southwestern Atlantic -- 7. The scientific explorations of the deep-sea fishes in Brazil: the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns -- 8. Living and non-living resources in Brazilian deep waters -- Index -- .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Perspective of climate change on aquatic environment and fish production -- 2. Climate Change: Stressor on Marine Buffer System -- 3. Climate Change: Impact on Fauna and Fishing Activity 0f River -- 4. Possible Impact of Climate Change on Fisheries -- 5. Impact of global warming on changing pattern of biodiversity and fish production in inland open waters -- 6. Climate Change and Coral Reef Ecosystem: Impacts and Management Strategies -- 7. Implications of Climate Change on Fisheries and Food Security -- 8. Nexus of climate change with fish production and its implications on livelihood and nutritional security -- 9. Gut microbes and its physiological role in fish: adaptive strategies for climatic variability -- 10. Metabolic adaptation of fishes under different consequences of climate change -- 11. Argulus Parasitism in Aquaculture: An Elevated Temperature Scenario -- 12. Effect of environmental variability on the pigmentation of Fishes -- 13. Climate Change and stress Response in Teleost. 14. Impact of Climate Change on Emergence of Biotoxin in Fish and Shellfish -- 15. Metabolomic response to high temperature stress in murrel Channa striatus and insights for designer feeds -- 16. Feed and feeding management for sustainable growth and health of fish in varying climatic condition -- 17. Vulnerability and Mitigation Approach to Nutritional Pathology for Sustainable Fish Growth in Changing Climatic Conditions -- 18. Technology Prioritization For Climate-Resilient Nutritive Fish -- 19. Role of Dietary supplements in stress amelioration of teleost fishes -- 20. Dealing the hardship in aquaculture nutrition in a changing climatic condition -- 21. Strategies to mitigate climate change-imposed challenges in fish nutrition -- 22. Duckweed-based circular aquaculture for climate resilience and carbon foot-print reduction of fed Aquaculture -- 23. Nutraceuticals in aquaculture: a prospective climate change adaptation strategy -- 24. Broodstock development, induced breeding, and seed production of climbing perch Anabas testudineus: An alternative aquaculture species for changing environment -- 25. Effect of changing environmental factors on reproductive cycle and endocrinology of fishes -- 26. Impact of climate change on fish reproduction and climate-resilient broodstock management -- 27. Nutrition and environment interactions in aquaculture -- 28. Reproductive and maternal nutrition in changing climatic conditions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 – Presentation and introduction -- 2 – Dedication (to Genevieve Corwin) -- 3 – Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) -- 4 – Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) -- 5 – Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on small tunas (or: on small tunas species, tbd) -- 6 – Comprehensive Italian annotated blibliography on tropical tunas species -- 7 – Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on swordfish, Xiphias gladius, Linnaeus, 1758 -- 8 – Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on Mediterranean spearfish, Tetrapturus belone, Rafinesque, 1810, and other Istiophoridae.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 2:Climate Change and Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 3: Relationships between Humans and Great Salt Lake: Dynamics of Change -- Chapter 4: Microbialites of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 5: Unexpected complexity at salinity saturation: microbial diversity of the north arm of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 6: Invertebrates and phytoplankton: is salinity the driving factor? -- Chapter 7: Great Salt Lake Artemia: Ecosystem Functions and Services with a Global Reach -- Chapter 8: Importance of Great Salt Lake to Pelagic Birds: Eared Grebes, Phalaropes, Gulls, Ducks, and White Pelicans -- Chapter 9: Great Salt Lake Shorebirds, Their Habitats and Food Base -- Chapter 10: American White Pelicans of Gunnison Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah -- Chapter 11: Amphibians and Reptiles of Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah -- Chapter 12: Shoreline Plants of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 13: Invasive plants of Great Salt Lake wetlands: what, where, how, and why? -- Chapter 14: Mercury Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification in Great Salt Lake Ecosystems -- Chapter 15: The Rozel Point Tar Seeps and Their Impact on the Local Biology -- Chapter 16: Great Salt Lake as an astrobiology analogue for ancient Martian hypersaline aqueous systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction And Context -- Chapter 1: Introduction And Context -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: Kenya Case Study One -- Chapter 3: Guatemala Case Study -- Chapter 4: Ghana Case Study One -- Chapter 5: Pacific Island Case Study -- Chapter 6: Saudi Arabia Case Study -- Chapter 7: Philippines Case Study One -- Chapter 8: Kenya Case Study Two -- Chapter 9: Tanzania Case Study -- Chapter 10: Indonesia Case Study -- Chapter 11: Panama Case Study -- Chapter 12: Philippines Case Study Two -- Chapter 13: Bangladesh Case Study -- Chapter 14: Ghana Case Study Two -- Chapter 15: Ecuador Case Study -- Chapter 16: Thailand Case Study -- Chapter 17: Peru Case Study -- Part III: Evaluation And Synopsis -- Chapter 18: Evaluation And Synopsis.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Physical Geography -- Pollution in the Pearl River Estuary -- Trace Metals in the Water Column and Sediments -- Trace Metals in Pearl River Estuary Organisms -- Trace Metal Contamination of Seafood from the Pearl River Estuary -- Trace Metals and Ecotoxicological Effects in the Pearl River Estuary -- Future needs.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Overview of fish immune system -- Chapter 2. Shrimp immune system and immune responses -- Chapter 3. Types of vaccines used in aquaculture -- Chapter 4. Vaccines against bacterial pathogens of fish -- Chapter 5. Viral vaccines for farmed finfish -- Chapter 6. Vaccines for parasitic diseases of fish -- Chapter 7. Bacterial biofilm for oral vaccination in aquaculture -- Chapter 8. RNA interference vaccines for disease control in aquaculture -- Chapter 9. Prospects of vaccination in crustaceans with special reference to shrimp -- Chapter 10. Methods of vaccine delivery -- Chapter 11. Adjuvants for fish vaccines -- Chapter 12. Role of pattern recognition receptors and interferons in fish vaccination -- Chapter 13. Evaluating efficacy of vaccines in finfish -- Chapter 14. Biosafety and regulatory requirements for vaccines -- Chapter 15. Adverse effects of fish vaccines.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: “Playing in the Mud” Benthic Foraminiferal Communities - Dynamic Environmental Impact Indicators -- Chapter 2: Sampling, Handling, and Analyzing of interface sediment-water -- Chapter 3: Microfossil (thecamoebians, ostracodes, nanofossils, plankyic foraminifera) communities Response to Recent and Past Environmental Impacts -- Chapter 4: Water masses and Geohabitats as Benthic Habitats for foraminiferal species -- Chapter 5: Water Renovation, Sewage and Industrial Pollution stress on benthic fauna -- Chapter 6: Ocean warming and acidification changes and the response of tiny calcareous giants of the anoxic great seas -- Chapter 7: Forecast of Sea-Level Rise tacked by Foraminiferal Assemblages Associations -- Chapter 8: Climatology and benthic fauna extinctions -- Chapter 9: Biodiversity and Exotic Foraminiferal Species Invasion -- Chapter 10: How to Prepare for Climate Changes using Microfossils?.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The future of food from the sea -- Chapter 2.The Expected Impacts of Climate Change on the Ocean Economy -- Chapter 3. What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainalble Future? -- Chapter 4. The Ocean Genome: Conservation and the Fair, Equitable and Sustainable Use of Marine Genetic Resources -- Chapter 5. Leveraging Multi-Target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean -- Chapter 6. Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources -- Chapter 7. Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements -- Chapter 8. National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy -- Chapter 9. Ocean Finance -- Chapter 10. Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Threshold and Governance -- Chapter 11. The Human Relationship with Our Ocean Planet -- Chapter 12. The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions -- Chapter 13. Towards Ocean Equity -- Chapter 14. Integrated Ocean Management -- Chapter 15. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers -- Chapter 16. Organised Crime Associated with Fisheries -- Chapter 17. The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action -- Chapter 18. A Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050: Approximating Its Benefits and Costs -- Chapter 19. A Sustainable & Equitable Blue Recovery to the COVID-19 Crisis -- Chapter 20. Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy -- Chapter 21. Transformations for a Sustainable Ocean Economy: A Vision for Protection, Production and Prosperity.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Morphology of Free-living Nematode -- Chapter 3. Materials and Methods -- Chapter 4. Systematics and taxanomy -- Chapter 5. Order Araeolaimida De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933 -- Chapter 6. Order Chromadorida Chitwood, 1933 -- Chapter 7. Order Desmodorida De Coninck, 1965 -- Chapter 8. Order Desmoscolecida Filipjev, 1929 -- Chapter 9. Order Monhysterida Filipjev, 1929 -- Chapter 10. Order Plectida Gadea, 1973 -- Chapter 11. Order Enoplida Filipjev, 1929 -- Index to families, genera and species.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction and Background -- Chapter 2. Anthropogenic Environmental Impacts on Coral Reefs in the Western and South-Western Pacific Ocean -- Chapter 3. Advances in Coral Biology -- Chapter 4. Reef Ecology in the Western Pacific for Adaptation to Global Change -- Chapter 5. Biogeochemical Dynamics of Coral Reef Systems -- Chapter 6. Environmental and Climate Proxies Embedded in Coral Skeletons -- Chapter 7. Synthesis and Future Perspectives on the Coral Reefs in the Western Pacific Region.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age -- Incorporating Genetic Measures of Connectivity and Adaptation in Marine Spatial Planning for Corals -- Maximizing Genetic Diversity in Coral Restoration Projects -- Identifying, Monitoring, and Managing Adaptive Genetic Variation in Reef-Building Corals Under Rapid Climate Warming -- Selective Breeding to Enhance the Adaptive Potential of Corals -- Coral Conservation from the Genomic Perspective on Symbiodiniaceae Diversity and Function in the Holobiont -- Dynamics of Bacterial Communities on Coral Reefs: Implications for Conservation -- Increasing Coral thermal Bleaching Tolerance via the Manipulation of Associated Microbes -- Epigenetics and Acquired Tolerance to Environmental Stress -- Can Gene Expression Studies Inform Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration? -- A Need for Reverse Genetics to Study Coral Biology and Inform Conservation Efforts -- Informing Coral Reef Conservation Through Metabolomic Approaches -- Environmental DNA for Biodiversity Monitoring of Coral Reefs -- Cryopreservation to Conserve Genetic Diversity of Reef-Building Corals -- Synthesis: Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age.

Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION I – IN THE BEGINNING -- CHAPTER 1. WADING IN ̶ INTRODUCTION TO THE FISH-BIRD -- General Discussion of Penguins and Substance of the Book -- An Impressive Number of Penguin Species: Evolution of Their Unique Capabilities -- Penguin Species Radiation and the Ontogeny of Their Watery World -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Climate -- Penguin Evolution: Radiation into Vacant Niches -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Crossing the Sea-Land Boundary -- CHAPTER 2. LAND AHOY! A TIRESOME BUSINESS -- Crossing the Land-Ocean Interface is Affected by Body Size -- Why and How Often do Penguins Come Ashore? -- Tying Land-life to the At-sea Life of Fish-Birds: Foraging and Breeding -- Success Vary with Prey Availability -- Molt ̶Necessary, Brief Respite from the Sea -- SECTION II – PENGUIN MARINE HAUNTS AND FOOD HABITS -- CHAPTER 3.FISH-BIRDS AT HOME IN THEIR OCEAN HABITATS -- Oceanographic Fronts and Water Masses Important to Penguins: General Discussion -- Penguins Require High Productivity Water Masses -- Large Scale: Oceanographic Boundaries and At-sea Distributions of Penguins -- Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current -- Emperor and King penguins -- Adélie and Chinstrap penguins -- Antarctic Polar Front and Subantarctic Front -- Gentoo and Yellow-eyed penguins -- Macaroni and Royal penguins -- Northern and Southern Rockhopper, Fiordland, Snares penguins -- Subtropical Front and Continental Boundary Currents -- Galápagos, Humboldt, Magellanic, African penguins -- Little penguins -- Meso- and Small-Scale Ocean Processes Facilitating Penguin Exploits -- Island wakes -- Headland wakes -- Shelves and banks -- Submarine canyons -- Shelfbreak fronts -- Marginal ice zones -- Thermo-/haloclines -- CHAPTER 4. SEA FOOD ̶ THE FISH-BIRD MENU -- General Considerations -- Diet Quality: Survival in Cold Water -- Energy density of prey -- Prey size may or may not differ by penguin size -- Prey availability -- Diet Comparison among Penguin Species -- Polar/subpolar, mesopelagic penguins -- Subpolar, demersal/benthic, continental-shelf penguins -- Temperate, upper water column, continental-insular shelf penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental shelf/slope penguins -- Subpolar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- CHAPTER 5. ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF DIET COMPOSITION -- Intraspecific Competition among Penguins -- Foraging Range is Key: General Discussion -- Penguin Species’ Central-Place Foraging Range Patterns -- Sex Differences in Foraging -- Interspecific Competition Involving Penguins -- Penguins Eat A lot! -- Competition between Penguin Species -- Competition between penguins and other seabirds -- Competition between penguins and marine mammals -- Competition between penguins and industrial fisheries -- SECTION III – THE HARDWARE OF A FISH-BIRD -- CHAPTER 6. THE SLIPPERY SHAPE, HOT AIR AND THE POWERHOUSE – HOW FISH-BIRDS SWIM -- Water – Hard Taskmaster -- The Four Forces Relevant to Penguins -- Vertical Forces – Weight and Upthrust -- Buoyancy: How Much Air Do Penguins Hold? -- Buoyancy and Bergmann’s Rule revisited -- Horizontal Forces: Drag -- The Interplay of Drag and Upthrust in Gliding Penguins -- The Drag Devil is in the Detail -- The Penguin Powerhouse -- How Penguins Swim -- The Effect of Upthrust and Body Angle on Penguin Thrust and Lift Forces -- Top Speeds; Power and Upthrust -- The Energy Costs of Swimming -- General considerations -- Specific considerations -- ’Sensible’ Swim Strategies and Costs of Transport -- Cruising speed and integrating speed with the cost of transport, -- and beyond -- CHAPTER 7. HOT PENGUINS ̶ COLD WATER -- Resting and Floating Penguins -- The Metabolic Rate of Floating Penguins -- Patterns of Heat Loss to the Sea -- Overall Body Insulation/Conductance -- The Nature of Penguin Insulation -- Active Penguins -- Activity Produces Heat -- Greater Depths Impose a Higher Heat Tax -- Consuming Prey Imposes a Heat Tax -- Embracing The Fish in the Fish-bird -- CHAPTER 8. FISH-BIRDS – THE INSIDE STORY -- Diving Physiology -- Surface issues – Uptake of oxygen -- Oxygen Management Underwater -- Role of the Air Spaces -- Gas Exchange to Body Tissues -- The Aerobic Dive Limit and Beyond -- The Importance of Size in Dive Performance -- Duration -- Depth -- Penguins Under Pressure – Beating the Squeeze and the Bends -- Barotrauma -- Beating the Bends -- A Gut Reaction in Fish-Birds -- Gastric Emptying -- Rotting Food -- The Eyes Have It -- SECTION IV – THE SOFTWARE OF FISH-BIRDS -- CHAPTER 9. EMBRACING THE DEPTHS - THE PENGUIN DIVE -- Submergence -- The time underwater – basic dive descriptors -- Dive profiles -- Dive distance-depth profiles -- Dive aspect ratios -- Horizontal dive directionality/tortuosity -- The Multifunctionality of Dives -- Basic dive types -- T-dives for travelling -- V-dives (water column assessment) -- P-dives (parabolic – prospecting with no prey capture) -- Po-dives (parabolic dives with circular trajectory) -- U-dives (depth-directed prospecting) -- W-dives/Up-dives (U-dives with prey pursuit) -- Depth Duration Effects Over Multiple Dives -- CHAPTER 10. FISH-BIRD STRATEGIES ̶ THE SEARCH FOR FICKLE PREY -- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions – How Fish-Birds Search for Prey -- Heading in the Right Direction -- Dealing with Prey Patchiness -- In-depth Considerations: -- Time-based efficiency -- Energy-based efficiency -- Superficial Considerations: Surface Pauses and Inspired Tactics -- Being Picky about Food -- Fish-Birds and Smart Strategies -- CHAPTER 11. THE FINAL SECONDS – HOW FISH-BIRDS CAPTURE PREY -- Prey Acquisition, a Departure from the Dive ‘Norm’ -- Performance Metrics for Prey Capture -- Catching Solitary Prey -- Changing buoyancy with depth affects prey capture strategies -- Prey pursuit against interfaces -- Exploiting Aggregated Prey -- Crustaceans -- Fish -- Non-corralling feeding behavior -- Clarity on Limitations of Penguin Vision -- SECTION V – PENGUINS IN A FICKLE ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 12. TURNING THE TABLES – FISH-BIRDS ON THE MENU -- Basic Law of the Sea: Big Fish Eat Little Fish -- Seals as Predators -- Seals’ hunting behavior -- Penguins avoiding seals -- Fur Seals as Predators -- Sea Lions as Predators -- Killer Whales as Predators -- Sharks as Predators -- CHAPTER 13. PENGUINS ADJUSTING TO A CHANGING OCEAN -- Penguins Have Always Been Challenged by a Changing Ocean -- Prehistoric response to a changing ocean -- Possible prehistoric changes to penguins’ food web -- The Anthropocene: How will Penguins Cope, Now Also Dealing with Humans? -- Response to long-term climate change -- Response to short-term ocean climate variation -- Response to marine pollution -- CHAPTER 14. NOT FORGETTING ̶ -- The Social Side - Behavior and Communication at Sea -- Penguin flock fusion/cohesion -- Penguin flock fission/fragmentation -- Navigation -- Long range -- Medium to short-range -- Understanding the Daily ‘Wash’ -- Air flux in diving penguins, an aspect of ‘washing’ -- Are Auks Really ‘Northern Penguins’? -- Research Tags – the Flip Side for Evolutionarily-Honed Fish-Birds -- SECTION VI -- CHAPTER 15. PENGUINS ̶ WHY THE HYPE? -- Sources of Hype -- Us -- Many people -- Researchers -- The Transition -- The fascination of species -- Beyond the transition -- Role in Ecosystems -- Biomimicry -- Our Last Word.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Biology of Marine Cnidarians -- Chapter 3. Biology and Ecology of Venomous Marine hydrozoans -- Chapter 4. Biology and Ecology of the Venomous Marine true jellyfish -- Chapter 5. Biology and Ecology of the Venomous Marine Box Jellyfish -- Chapter 6. Biology and Ecology of the Venomous Marine Anthozoans -- Chapter 7. Venomology of Marine Cnidarians.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Marine Biology -- Part I Japanese Marine Flora and Fauna -- Chapter 2. Japanese Marine Life -- Chapter 3. Basic Taxonomy of Marine Organisms -- Chapter 4. Marine Plankton -- Chapter 5. Marine Algae and Plants -- Chapter 6. Marine Animals -- Chapter 7. Distribution of marine species on the marine seashore -- Part II Cell and Developmental Biology -- Chapter 8. Marine organisms and life science -- Chapter 9. Gametes and fertilization -- Chapter 10. Development of Marine Invertebrates -- Chapter 11. Development of marine fish: several procedures for the observation of embryonic development -- Chapter 12. Development of Marine Algae -- Chapter 13. Animal Larvae and Evolution -- Part III Marine Zoology -- Chapter 14. Contribution of marine animals in physiology, endocrinology and ethology -- Chapter 15. Physiology -- Chapter 16. Endocrinology -- Chapter 17. Animal Behavior -- Part IV Marine Ecology -- Chapter 18. Marine Ecology Introduction -- Chapter 19. Marine Ecology – Temperate to Tropical -- Chapter 20. Marine Ecology – Intertidal/Littoral Zone -- Chapter 21. Marine Ecology – Sea Shelf to Deep Sea -- Chapter 22. Marine Ecology – Survey Techniques in Marine Ecology -- Chapter 23. Experimental Design in Marine Ecology -- Part V Marine Environmental Science -- Chapter 24. Marine Environmental Science Introduction -- Chapter 25. Elemental Circulation -- Chapter 26. Human Impact -- Chapter 27. Survey Techniques in Marine Environmental Sciences -- Chapter 28. Experimental Design in Marine Environmental Sciences -- Part VI Selected Topics in Marine Biology -- Chapter 29. Marine Data -- Chapter 30. Biologging -- Chapter 31. Marine Microbes. Chapter 32. Marine Conservation. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the Marine Environment -- 3. Shoaling and migration of fish and their relationships with environment -- 4. Basic Theories of Formation of Fishing ground -- 5. Basic Principles and Methods of Fisheries Forecasting -- 6. Case Studies of Fisheries Forecasting -- 7. Effects of Global climate Changes on Marine Fishery Resources.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Climate Change and the Ocean -- 1 Introduction to Climate Change -- 2 Warming, Acidification and Deoxygenation of the Ocean -- 3 Blue Carbon -- 4 Fishes and Carbon -- 5 Whales and Climate -- Part II Fisheries and Food from the Ocean -- 6 State of the World’s Fisheries—Legal Overfishing -- 7 Fish Crimes (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing) -- 8 Aquaculture: Farming Food from the Sea -- 9 Shark Fishing and Shark Finning -- 10 The Move to Sustainable Seafood -- Part III Ocean Pollution -- 11 Plastic and the Ocean -- 12 Shipping and the Ocean -- 13 Oil Spills -- 14 Ocean Noise Pollution -- Part IV Threatened and at Risk Ocean Habitats -- 15 The Deep Sea -- 16 Coral Reefs -- 17 Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: Our Last Great Wilderness -- 18 Top of theWorld—The Arctic Ocean -- 19 Coastal Habitats -- Part V How We Manage the World’s Oceans -- 20 Ocean Governance -- 21 Marine Protected Areas -- 22 Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Blue Economy -- 23 Leveraging Innovation for Ocean Conservation -- Part VI Humans and the Ocean -- 24 Oceans and Communities -- 25 Tourism and the Ocean -- 26 The Aquarium Trade -- 27 Marine Animal Welfare: A Growing Concern -- 28 Ocean and Human Health -- Part VII Diversity and Inclusion in the Ocean Space -- 29 Gender and the Ocean: Marine Resources and Spaces for All -- 30 Racial-Gender Disparities, and the Impacts of Coloniality in Ocean Science on BIPOC Women -- 31 Lived Experiences: Editors’ Note -- Part VIII Inspiring Voices -- 32 Inspiring Voices: Inka Cresswell, Jamila Janna, Merrisa Naidoo, Louisa Ponnampalam, Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy, Jo Ruxton MBE, Marilyn Slett, Patima Tungpuchayakul -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the Habitat and the Ecosystem -- Shallow Hardbottom of East Florida and the Caribbean and the Regional Shelf Setting -- Macroalgae and Cyanobacteria -- Invertebrates -- Fish Assemblages -- Marine Turtles -- Functional Ecological Attributes of Shallow Hardbottom -- Mitigating Shallow Hardbottom Impacts -- Literature Cited -- Appendices.

Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Rivers in the Anthropocene -- 2. Streamflow -- 3. Fluvial Geomorphology -- 4. Stream Chemistry -- 5. The Abiotic Environment -- 6. Primary Producers -- 7. Detrital Energy and the Decompposition of Organic Matter -- 8. Stream Microbial Ecology -- 9. Trophic Relationships -- 10. Species Interactions -- 11. Lotic Communities -- 12.Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling in Aquatic Communities -- 13. Nutrient Dynamics -- 14. Carbon Dynamics and Stream Ecosystem Metabolism -- 15. How We Manage Rivers, And Why. .

Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION: THE REEF PHENOMENON -- INTO THE INTIMACY OF CORALS, BUILDERS OF THE SEA -- 1 TAXONOMIC AFFILIATION -- 1.1 Systematic classification of cnidarians -- 1.2 Scleractinians -- 2 MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY -- 2.1 Polyp anatomy -- 2.2 Reproduction -- 2.2.1 Sexual reproduction -- 2.2.2 Asexual reproduction -- 2.3 Anatomy of calcareous skeletons -- 2.4 Coral colonies -- 2.4.1 Corallite arrangement -- 2.4.2 Colony morphology -- 3 SYMBIOSIS -- 4 BIOMINERALIZATION -- 4.1 Calicoderm and biomineralization -- 4.2 Skeletons and biomineralization -- 4.3 Interface between calicoderm and skeleton -- 4.4 Principles of calcification -- 5 NUTRITION -- 5.1 Prey capture -- 5.2 Food -- 5.3 Autotrophy -- THE MODERN TIMES -- 1 BIOZONATION -- 2 REEF MORPHOTYPES -- 2.1 Fringing reefs -- 2.2 Barrier reefs -- 2.3 Atolls -- 2.4 Bank reefs -- 2.5 High carbonate islands -- 3 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION -- 3.1 Ecological control -- 3.2 Tectonic control -- 3.3 Eustatic control -- 3.4 Topographic control -- 4 REEF GROWTH -- 4.1 Vertical growth strategies -- 4.1.1 Controlling factors -- 4.1.2 Give-up growth -- 4.1.3 Keep-up growth -- 4.1.4 Catch-up mode -- 4.2 Lateral growth -- 5 MORPHO-SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES -- 5.1 Bioconstruction -- 5.2 Erosion -- 5.3 Bioaccumulation -- 5.4 Cementation -- 6 INTERNAL STRUCTURE -- 6.1 Nature and distribution of facies -- 6.1.1 Framework facies -- 6.1.2 Detrital facies -- 6.1.3 Facies distribution and hydrodynamics -- 6.2 The different structural models -- 7 A BRIEF HISTORY OF REEF DEVELOPMENT -- 7.1 The climatic context -- 7.2 History of reef development since the last deglaciation -- 7.3 Reef history throughout the Pleistocene -- 8 RECORD OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES -- 8.1 Record at the coral colony scale -- 8.1.1 Temperature -- 8.1.2 Salinometry -- 8.1.3 Rainfall -- 8.1.4 pH measurement -- 8.1.5 Photometry -- 8.1.6 Current measurement -- 8.2 Record at the scale of a reef edifice -- 8.2.1 Reef flats and micro-atolls -- 8.2.2 Arrangement of coral communities -- 8.2.3 Arrangement of reef edifices -- THE LONG MARCH OF CORALS -- 1 THE TIME OF THE ORIGINS -- 1.1 Early Earth and the first traces of life -- 1.2 Evolution of the atmosphere -- 1.3 Geochemical model of the early ocean -- 1.4 Emergence of biomineralization -- 1.5 The early calcifying organisms and cnidarians -- 1.6 The earliest corals -- 1.7 The appearance of scleractinian corals -- 2 THE TIME OF DIVERSIFICATION -- 2.1 Coral-algae symbiosis -- 2.1.1 Acquiring photosymbiosis -- 2.1.2 Evidence of photosymbiosis -- 2.1.3 Symbiosis and coloniality -- 2.2 A brief history of coral and reef building -- 2.2.1 Paleozoic times -- 2.2.2 Mesozoic times -- 2.2.3 Cenozoic times -- THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE REEF PHENOMENON -- 1 CAUSES -- 1.1 Causal relationships -- 1.2 Gas emissions and volcanic products -- 1.3 Methane emissions -- 1.4 Thermogenic gases -- 1.5 The fall of celestial bodies -- 1.6 Behaviour of organisms facing environmental disturbances -- 1.7 Disturbances induced by CO2 and ocean acidification -- 1.8 Thermal shocks -- 1.9 Disturbances induced by ocean deoxygenation -- 2 THE MAIN BIOLOGICAL CRISES -- 2.1 The Cambrian crises -- 2.2 The major crisis of the Ordovician end -- 2.3 The minor crises of the Silurian -- 2.4 The successive crises of the Devonian -- 2.5 The Permian crises -- 2.6 The Triassic crises -- 2.7 The lower Jurassic crisis -- 2.8 The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition (J–K) -- 2.9 The Cretaceous–Paleogene crisis -- 2.10 The Paleocene–Eocene crisis -- 2.11 The Eocene–Oligocene transition -- 2.12 The Oligocene end to the Plio-Quaternary -- 3 THE RESPONSE OF CORALS AND REEFS TO CRISES: FROM EXTINCTION TO RECOVERY -- 3.1 At the Ordovician end -- 3.2 During the Silurian -- 3.3 During the Devonian -- 3.4 At the Permian -- 3.5 At the Permian–Triassic boundary -- 3.6 From the middle to the end of the Triassic -- 3.7 During the Jurassic -- 3.8 From the upper Jurassic to the lower Cretaceous -- 3.9 At the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition -- 3.10 From the Paleocene to the Eocene -- 3.11 From the Oligocene to the Miocene -- 3.12 During the Plio-Quaternary -- 4 CONCLUSIONS -- CORAL REEFS IN THE FACE OF THEIR FATE -- 1 DISRUPTIVE AGENTS IN ACTION -- 1.1 Carbon dioxide and rising surface water temperatures -- 1.2 Carbon dioxide and its effects on the carbonate cycle -- 1.3 Carbon dioxide and ocean acidification -- 1.4 The other disruptive agents -- 2 THE RESPONSE OF CORALS AND CORAL REEFS -- 2.1 Temperature rise of surface waters -- 2.2 To acidification -- 2.3 To other disruptive agents -- 3 THE EVOLUTION OF CORAL ISLETS -- 3.1 The modes of low-lying island formation -- 3.2 Future evolution of low-lying islands: maintenance, reduction, or destruction? -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDICE.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Shrimps: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Structure and Function -- Chapter 3. The Families of Decapod Shrimps -- Chapter 4. Shrimp Hygiene: Antifouling Adaptations -- Chapter 5. Coloration, Color Change and Camouflage -- Chapter 6. Reproduction -- Chapter 7. Sexual Systems -- Chapter 8. Mating Systems -- Chapter 9. Life Histories -- Chapter 10. Symbioses -- Chapter 11. Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 12. Evolutionary History and Relationships of Shrimps.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- An Introduction to Reservoir Ecotoxicology -- Part II. Environmental Characteristics in Reservoir Ecosystems -- Characterization of Reservoir Ecosystem -- Main Sources and Distribution of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Migration and Transformation of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Harmful Algal Bloom in the Reservoir -- Microplastics Pollution in the Reservoir: Occurrence, Extraction, and Characterization -- Distribution of Microorganisms in the Reservoir -- Part III. Study Methods of Ecotoxicology in the Reservoir -- Ecotoxicity Test Methods of Primary Producers in the Reservoir -- Ecotoxicology Methods of Reservoir Water Using Invertebrates -- Ecotoxicology Methods of Reservoir Water Using Fish -- Ecotoxicology Methodology of Sediment Toxicity in the Reservoir -- Mesocosm Study in the Reservoir Ecosystem -- Part IV. Ecotoxicological Effects and Mechanism of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Heavy Metals in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Microplastics in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Plasticizers in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of PPCPs in the Reservoir -- Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Invasive Alien Species Problem in the Reservoir -- Part V. Conclusions -- Final Thoughts and Concluding Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I. Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) -- Spawning Characteristics of Yellow Perch During Periods of Water Level Fluctuations in a Hydropower Reservoir -- A Comparison of Aquaculture Production Methods for Optimizing Production of Fingerling Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) -- Evaluation of a Statewide Yellow Perch Bag Limit for Michigan -- Distribution and Abundance of Pelagic Larval Yellow Perch in Lake St. Clair (USA/Canada) and Adjoining Waters -- PART II. Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) -- Using Genomic Data to Guide Walleye Management in the Great Lakes -- Walleye Larviculture in Water Reuse Aquaculture Systems -- Effects of Parasiticidal Hydrogen Peroxide Treatments on Walleye Hatching Success in a Recirculating System -- Seasonal Movement Patterns and Distribution of Walleye in a Central Appalachian Hydropower Reservoir -- Managing Tribal Fisheries and Employees on the Reservation -- Can You Hear Me Now? Design Considerations for Large Lake, Multispecies Telemetry Projects -- PART III. Sauger (Stizostedion canadense) -- Sauger Restoration in the Upper Allegheny River Watershed, New York -- PART IV. Comparison of North American and European Percid Fisheries -- International Importance of Percids: Summary and Looking Forward.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Protein Requirement -- Chapter 3. Utilization of Proteinaceous Nutrients -- Chapter 4. Peptides or Amino Acids? -- Chapter 5. Amino Acid Functions and Requirements -- Chapter 6. Simple Amino Acids: Gly, Ala, Asp, Gln -- Chapter 7. The Versatile Amino Acid: Tryptophan -- Chapter 8. A Bunch of Amino Acids: Phe, Tyr, Branched-Chain AAs, Ser, Thr -- Chapter 9. Sulfur Amino Acids -- Chapter 10. Basic Amino Acids and Prolines -- Chapter 11. Taurine -- Chapter 12. Nonprotein Amino Acids -- Chapter 13. Glucose -- Chapter 14. Glucose Homeostasis -- Chapter 15. Glucose Intolerance -- Chapter 16. Carbohydrate Transport -- Chapter 17. Protein Sparing by Carbohydrates -- Chapter 18. Carbohydrate Preference and Metabolism -- Chapter 19. Regulatory Potential of Carbohydrates -- Chapter 20. Oligosaccharides -- Chapter 21. Starch -- Chapter 22. Non-Starch-Polysaccharides & Fibers -- Chapter 23. Lipids -- Chapter 24. Lipid Homeostasis -- Chapter 25. Protein Sparing by Lipids -- Chapter 26. Fatty Acids -- Chapter 27. Essential Fatty Acids -- Chapter 28. Biosynthesis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids -- Chapter 29. PUFAs in Reproduction and Behavior -- Chapter 30. Trophic Transfer of PUFAs -- Chapter 31. Sterols, Phospholipids, Wax Esters -- Chapter 32. Vitamin A -- Chapter 33. Vitamin B -- Chapter 34. Vitamin C -- Chapter 35. Vitamin D -- Chapter 36. Vitamin E -- Chapter 37. Vitamin K -- Chapter 38. Nucleotides -- Chapter 39. Exogenous Enzymes -- Chapter 40. Intraspecific Variability.

Description / Table of Contents: Diagnosing the Problem -- Cultivate Shellfish to Remediate the Atmosphere -- Aquaculture: Prehistoric to Traditional to Modern -- The High Seas Solution -- Farming Giant Clams in 2021: a Great Future for the ‘Blue Economy’ of Tropical Islands -- Coccolithophore Cultivation and Deployment -- Comparing industrial and biotechnological solutions for carbon capture and storage -- What should be done.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fish Stocks and Discriminant Methods -- Chapter 3. Life History and Early Development of Fishes -- Chapter 4. Age and growth of fish -- Chapter 5. Sexual maturation, reproductive habits and fecundity of fish -- Chapter 6. Fish prey, food habits and interspecific relationships -- Chapter 7. Fish schooling and migration.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Anthropogenic Factors to Coral Reef Conservation in the Coastal Areas of the East China Sea -- Chapter 2. Transitional Coral Ecosystem of Taiwan in the Era of Changing Climate -- Chapter 3. Dynamics of Coral Reef Communities in the Sekisei Lagoon, Japan, Following the Severe Mass Bleaching Event of 2016 -- Chapter 4. Succession and Emergence of Corals in High-Latitude (Temperate) Areas of Eastern Asia into the Future -- Chapter 5. Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters -- Chapter 6. Succession of Ocean Acidification and its Effects on Reef-Building Corals -- Chapter 7. Anthropogenic Stresses in Coral Reefs and Adjacent Ecosystems of the East China Sea -- Chapter 8. Development of a Compact Experimental System for Ecotoxicological Experiments on Acropora spp. -- Chapter 9. Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Hermatypic Corals with Special Reference to Gene Expression -- Chapter 10. Perspective for the Conservation of Coral Reefs in the East China Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. History of Hinase -- Chapter 3. Eelgrass Restoration -- Chapter 4. Living on the Coast -- Chapter 5. Social Network and Ideas Concerning the Restoration Activity -- Chapter 6. The Sun is Born.

Description / Table of Contents: What can we infer about the behavior of extinct sirenians -- Sensory and morphological adaptation for an aquatic lifestyle -- Diving and foraging behaviors. Lucy Keith-Diagne, African Aquatic Conservation Fund -- Movement behaviors. Chip Deutsch, Associate Research Scientist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission -- Historical and current interactions with humans from the perspective of sirenian ethology and behavioral ecology -- Likely impacts of climate change on sirenian behavior -- Implications of sirenian behavior for conservation and management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Sex and Behavior -- Chapter 2. Genetic Tools to Investigate the Consequences of Sex -- Chapter 3. Skulls, Teeth, and Sex -- Chapter 4. Cetacean Evolution: Copulatory and Birthing Consequences of Pelvic and Hindlimb Reduction -- Chapter 5. Sexual Anatomy of Female Cetaceans: Art and Science Contribute Insights into Functionality -- Chapter 6. Interspecific Comparison of Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 7. Non-Conceptive Sexual Behavior in Cetaceans: Comparison of Form and Function -- Chapter 8. Play, Sexual Display, or Just Boredom Relief? -- Chapter 9. Sexual Behaviors of Odontocetes in Managed Care -- Chapter 10. Infanticide and Sexual Conflict in Cetaceans -- Chapter 11. Drone Perspectives on Cetacean Mating and Sex -- Chapter 12. Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in Bottlenose Dolphin Mating Strategies -- Chapter 13. Sex and Sexual Strategies in Deep-Diving Risso's Dolphins -- Chapter 14. Sociosexual Behavior of Nocturnally Foraging Dusky and Spinner Dolphins -- Chapter 15. Life History Parameters, Sociobiology, and Reproductive Strategies of Pilot Whales -- Chapter 16. Sex in Killer Whales: Behavior, Exogamy and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies in the Ocean’s Apex Predator -- Chapter 17. Beaked Whale Sexual Dimorphism, Mating Strategies, and Diversification -- Chapter 18. Sexual Behavior and Anatomy in Porpoises -- Chapter 19. Sperm Whale Reproductive Strategies: Current Knowledge and Future Directions -- Chapter 20. Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales -- Chapter 21. Gray Whale Sex, Reproductive Behavior, and Social Strategies -- Chapter 22. Bowhead Whale Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 23. Right Whale Sexual Strategies and Behavior -- Chapter 24. Cetacean Sociality, Reproduction, and Conservation.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Freshwater microbiology: recent updates and prospects -- Chapter 2. The Chemical Composition of the Water in the Rivers, Lakes, and Wetlands of Uttarakhand -- Chapter 3. Microbial diversity of cold-water reservoirs and their prospective applications -- Chapter 4. Overview of microbial associations and their role under aquatic ecosystems -- Chapter 5. Plant-microbe interaction in Freshwater ecosystem for improving water quality -- Chapter 6. Microbial interactions with aquatic plants -- Chapter 7. Status of Microplastic pollution in the freshwater ecosystems -- Chapter 8. Heavy metal pollution in water: Cause and remediation strategies -- Chapter 9. Recent advances in biological wastewater treatment -- Chapter 10. Recent developments in wastewater treatments -- Chapter 11. Wastewater treatment: perspective and advancements -- Chapter 12. Overview of methods and processes used in waste water treatment -- Chapter 13. Role of microorganisms in polluted water treatment -- Chapter 14. Bioremediation of Polluted water -- Chapter 15. Pollution in freshwater: Impact and Prevention -- Chapter 16. Fresh water pollution: overview, prevention and control -- Chapter 17. Iron Degrading Bacteria in the Aquatic Environment: Current Trends and Future Directions -- Chapter 18. Bioactive compounds from aquatic ecosystem -- Chapter 19. Freshwater BGA: A potential candidate for sustainable agriculture and environment for the welfare of future planet earth -- Chapter 20. Factors affecting Fish migration.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Wetlands -- Chapter 2. The Causal Factor Approach to Wetland Ecology -- Chapter 3. Duration of Flooding is the Most Important Causal Factor -- Chapter 4. Flood Pulses -- Chapter 5. Fertility -- Chapter 6. Natural Disturbance -- Chapter 7. Competition -- Chapter 8. Herbivory -- Chapter 9. Burial -- Chapter 10. Salinity -- Chapter 11. Roads -- Chapter 12. Coarse Woody Debris -- Chapter 13. Invasive Species are an Emerging Causal Factor -- Chapter 14. Human Population Size -- Chapter 15. The Global Context for Wetland Protection and Restoration -- Chapter 16. Some Review Questions for Managers.

Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: General considerations -- Chapter 1. Physical and chemical processes of marine environment -- Chapter 2. A review study on the microbes in the recycling of carbon -- Chapter 3. Microbial symbiosis in marine ecosystem -- Section 2: Communities of special interest -- Chapter 4. Cyanobacteria in oceanChapter -- Chapter 5. Marine algae and their importance -- Chapter 6. Antarctica microbial communities: ecological and industrial importance -- Chapter 7. Crustaceans - microbes and defense mechanisms -- Section 3: Marine microorganisms and environmental bioremediation -- Chapter 8. Pollution in marine ecosystem: impact and prevention -- Chapter 9. Source and effect of oil spills on associated microorganisms in marine aquatic environment -- Chapter 10. Heavy metal pollution in water: cause and remediation strategies -- Chapter 11. Responses of marine fungi to heavy metal contamination -- Chapter 12. Micro-plastic pollution in marine ecosystem and its remediation -- Chapter 13. Microplastic pollution in aquatic environment: ecotoxicological effects and bioremediation prospects -- Chapter 14. Biodegradation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals using marine microorganisms -- Chapter 15. Bioreactors for bioremediation of polluted water -- Section 4: Others applications and perspectives -- Chapter 16. Industrial importance of marine algae -- Chapter 17. Sargassum derived agents for potential cosmetic applications -- Chapter 18. Utilization of seaweed as partial replacement to the fish meal in aquaculture diets -- Chapter 19. Nanobiotechnology of marine organisms: mechanisms and applications -- Chapter 20. Bioactive compounds from marine water ecosystem -- Chapter 21. Marine fish microbiome: current status and future perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Morphology and Taxonomy -- Chapter 2. Population Structure and Speciation -- Chapter 3. Life History -- Chapter 4. Spawning Areas -- Chapter 5. Larval Transport -- Chapter 6. Glass Eel Recruitment -- Chapter 7. Spawning Migration -- Chapter 8. Behavior -- Chapter 9. Nervous Systems and Sense -- Chapter 10. Digestion and Absorption -- Chapter 11. Osmoregulation -- Chapter 12. Reproduction -- Chapter 13. Metamorphosis and Silvering -- Chapter 14. Artificial Maturation -- Chapter 15. Larval Rearing -- Chapter 16. Breeding -- Chapter 17. Disease -- Chapter 18. Fisheries -- Chapter 19. Resources -- Chapter 20. Trading -- Chapter 21. Distribution -- Chapter 22. River Improvement -- Chapter 23. Conservation. .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Biotechnology in Fisheries -- Chapter 2 Nucleic Acids -- Chapter 3 Gene and Genetic Code -- Chapter 4 Mutations and their Implications -- Chapter 5 Gene Regulation and Expression in Prokaryotes -- Chapter 6 Gene Regulation and Expression in Eukaryotes -- Chapter 7 Epigenetics -- Chapter 8 RNA in Gene Regulation -- Chapter 9 Recombinant DNA Technology -- Chapter 10 Transgenic Fish Production -- Chapter 11 Animal Cell Culture -- Chapter 12 Hybridoma Technology -- Chapter 13 Cryopreservation Technology in Fishes -- Chapter 14 Molecular Techniques -- Chapter 15 Molecular Markers -- Chapter 16 Biosensors -- Chapter 17 Bioremediation -- Chapter 18 Bioprocess Engineering in Fisheries -- Chapter 19 Bioprospecting in Fisheries -- Chapter 20 Bioinformatics- Databases and Formats -- Chapter 21 Sequence Retrieval, Manipulation, Analysis -- Chapter 22 Bioinformatic Tools and Techniques -- Chapter 23 Genomics and its Application in Fisheries.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tilapia Fish For Future Sustainable Aquaculture -- Chapter 2: Health Management For Sustainable Tilapia Farming -- Chapter 3: Effects Of Feed Additives On Tilapia Reproduction -- Chapter 4: Intestinal Microbiota Of Tilapia: Characterization And Modulation -- Chapter 5: Probiotics And Their Application In Tilapia Culture -- Chapter 6: Prebiotics And Synbiotics In Nile Tilapia Culture -- Chapter 7: Medicinal Plants In Tilapia Aquaculture -- Chapter 8: Alternative Protein Sources For Sustainable Tilapia Farming -- Chapter 9: Sustainable Tilapia Farming, The Role Of Culture Systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Nature-based solutions for urban water management: challenges and opportunities in the context of Asia -- Chapter 2: Types of Nature-based Solutions for water, their functions and suitability -- Chapter 3: Constructed floating wetlands for the treatment of surface waters and industrial wastewaters -- Chapter 4: Nature based solutions for water management in England: contribution to biodiversity net-gain in urban areas -- Chapter 5: Applications of Nature-based Solutions in Urban Water Management in Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, a review -- Chapter 6: Wastewater pollution in urban canals of Vietnam: Restoration using nature-based solutions -- Chapter 7: Nature-based solutions for domestic wastewater treatment in the Philippines -- Chapter 8: Application of Floating Wetlands as a Nature Based Solution for Water Reclamation of Urban Lakes in Sri Lanka and Development of an Appropriate Assessment Criterion -- Chapter 9: Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in following Global Standard for NbS: The Bangladesh Perspective.