This book exemplifies the ecological, social and economic perspectives of sustainable island tourism development. The book consists of 15 chapters presented in three parts. Cases in this book include cold water islands in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, as well as islands in the more popular...

The key conditions for the successful implementation and performance and the policy implications for fisheries and coastal co-management in South East Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Caribbean region are presented.

The Diplangidae is a small family of marine teleost parasites in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean off California and Mexico. This chapter describes the taxonomic history and diagnostic characteristics of the family, followed by a key to genera, diagnostic characteristics of each genus, and...

This chapter introduces the environmental consequences of the enrichment of marine waters by plant nutrients, particularly nitrogen, together with the principal concepts needed to understand it and the methods used to study it. It reviews the evidence implicating nitrogen in the fouling of marine...

The total annual prey consumption by 45 species (12 baleen whale species; 33 toothed whale species) out of 84 species (13 baleen whale species; 71 toothed whale species) of marine cetaceans in the world was assessed. The assessment was based on: (i) recently available abundance estimates of...