Large Marine Ecosystems
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Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management
Ed. by Q. Tang and K. Sherman, Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, MA. 1999. 465 p.

PROLOGUE

BACKGROUND AND FOCUS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. REGIME SHIFTS

Chapter 1
A Dynamical Scenario for Simultaneous "Regime-scale" Marine Population Shifts in Widely Separated LMEs of the Pacific, by Andrew Bakun
Chapter 2  Large-scale Climate-related Changes in the Carrying Capacity of Salmon in the Strait of Georgia and Northern North Pacific Ecosystems, by Richard J. Beamish and Chrys-Ellen M. Neville Chapter 3  The Interdecadal Climatic Change Signal in the Temperate LMEs of the Pacific, by Daniel Lluch-Belda
Chapter 4  Long-term Variations in Pelagic Communities in the Large Marine Ecosystems of the West Pacific Ocean, by V. P. Shuntov, E.P. Dullepova and V.V. Lapko Special Insert: Long-term Change in the North Pacific Ocean: A Consideration of Some Important Issues, by Thomas L. Hayward Special Insert: Plankton Patterns, Climate, and Change in the California Current, by John A. McGowan, Dudley B. Chelton, and Alessandra Conversi Special Insert: Interannual Variations in Zooplankton Biomass in the Gulf of Alaska, and Covariation with California Current Zooplankton Biomass, by Richard D. Brodeur, Bruce W. Frost, Steven R. Hare, Robert C. Francis, and W. James Ingraham Jr.
 II. CASE STUDIES
Chapter 5  
Eastern Bering Sea Ecosystem Trends, by P.A. Livingston, L-L. Low, and R.J. Marasco Chapter 6  Status and Perspectives of Living Marine Resources of the Yellow Sea Ecosystem in Korean Waters, by Chang Ik Zhang and Suam Kim
Chapter 7  
Ecology and Variability of Economically Important Pelagic Fishes in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, by Qisheng Tang and Xianshi Jin
Chapter 8  The Sea of Japan Large Marine Ecosystem, by Makoto Terazaki
Chapter 9  Changes in the Biomass of the East China Sea Ecosystem, by Ya-Qu Chen and Xin-Qiang Shen
Chapter 10
  Changing State and Health of the Gulf of Thailand Large Marine Ecosystem, by T. Piyakarnchana
Chapter 11  Effects of Physical and Biological Changes on the Biomass Yield of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem, by Jurgen Alheit and Patricio Bernal
Chapter 12  
The Pacific Central American Coastal LME, by Andrew Bakun, Jorge Csirke, Daniel Lluch-Belda, Rafael Steer-Ruiz
III. METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES
Chapter 13  Differences Between Boreal and Temperate Multispecies Fisheries Systems: Form and Implications for Multispecies Assessment and Management, by Jake Rice
Chapter 14  The Significance and Prediction of Predation in Marine Fisheries, by Nicholas J. Bax Chapter 15  Acoustic Assessment as an Available Technique in Monitoring the Living Resources of Large Marine Ecosystems, by Qisheng Tang, Xianyong Zhao, and Xianshi Jin
Chapter 16  Shoal Structure of Commercially Important Pelagic Fish in Relation to the Dynamics of Upwelling Marine Ecosystems, by Virgilio Arenas and Carlos Robinson
Chapter 17  
Measurements of the Upper Ocean Structure Using Towed Profiling Systems, by J. Aiken, R. Pollard, R. Williams, G. Griffiths, and Ian Bellan
Chapter 18  
High-resolution Biogeochemical Monitoring for Assessing Environmental and Ecological Changes in the Marginal Seas Using Ferry Boats, by A. Harashima, R. Tsuda, Y. Tanaka, T. Kimoto, and T. Hagiwara
IV. INDICATORS OF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

Chapter 19  Nutrients in the Bohai Sea, by Yi Cui and Yunli Song
Chapter 20  Ecological Carrying Capacity of Semi-enclosed Large Marine Ecosystems, by S. M. Konovalov
Chapter 21  
Alteration of Fatty Acid Composition of Coastal Diatoms Under Cadmium Stress, by Jae Sam Yang and Wonho Yih
Chapter 22  
Gills and Skin as Bio-indicators of Water Pollution in Fish From Freshwater and a Marine Habitat, by Sjoerd Wendelaar-Bonga, Rob Lock, Li Jie, Chen Minshan, Chen Bijuan, Deng Jingyao Chapter 23  Pollution in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: Monitoring, Research, and Ecological Effects, by Jun She
V. MANAGEMENT LINKAGES
Chapter 24  
Management of the Great Barrier Reef as a Large Marine Ecosystem, by Jon Brodie
Chapter 25  Borneo's Marine Ecosystem and the Greenhouse Risk Factor: A National Perspective, by Arbain Hj. Kadri, Mazlin B. Mokhtar, Almah Bt. Awaluddin, and Saleem Mustafa
Chapter 26  Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management, by Kenneth Sherman
VI. RECOMMENDATIONS








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