Book ID: 94173
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Polunin, Nicholas (ed.)
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects. 2008. 78 line drawings. 11 halftones. 39 tabs. 89 figs. XVI, 482 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    Gives detailed separate treatments of 21 ecosystems based on well-worked case studies. Unique review of how ecosystems are likely to change over the next 20 years spanning marine, freshwater and terrestrial-saline environments. Puts the climate change debate into a broader context, asa basis for conservation science and decision making.