Marine Conservation Biology by Elliott A. Norse, Larry B. Cro... - 9781559636629

Marine Conservation BiologyThe Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity\nAuthor(s): Elliott A. Norse, Larry B. Crowder, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Michael E. Soul\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Island Press\nISBN-13: 9781559636629, 978-1559636629\nSynopsis\nHumans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography and fisheries biology have largely ignored issues of conservation. Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservat.