Biological Adhesives
Many plants, animals, and microbes use adhesive polymers and structures to attach to inert substrates, to each other, or ...
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Bridging Divides
Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural ...
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Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-Toxicity
Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem ...
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Carbon in the Geobiosphere
Carbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth’s outer shell and ...
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Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives
Cephalopods are diverse, highly developed molluscs capable of swimming and jet propulsion. These animals are an important ...
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Challenges to Marine Ecosystems
This volume presents a representative sample of contributions to the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium held in September ...
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Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with ...
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Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are ubiquitous. They appear in cell phones, microwave ovens, refrigerators, consumer electronics, cars, ...
Lee masCompulsory Insurance and Compensation for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage
Oil tankers are not the only vessels that have caused oil pollution at sea. Numerous spills in the past have been of heavy ...
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Coral Reefs of the USA
This book will therefore be of broad general interest. For the first time, complete scholarly reviews are given for the geology, ...
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Deep-water Coral Reefs
Provides a useful overview of various aspects of deep-water coral reefs and carbonate mounds, providing insights into the ...
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Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities
Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world’s oceans. Because of ...
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Developments in Fish Telemetry
This volume includes 33 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe (Sesimbra, ...
Lee masDurability of reinforced concrete structures
Reinforced concrete structures corrode as they age, with significant financial implications, but it is not immediately clear ...
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Echinodermata
Members of the phylum Echinodermata are among the most familiar marine invertebrates. Forms such as the sea star have become ...
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Ecological Informatics
Ecological Informatics promotes interdisciplinary research between ecology and computer science on elucidation of principles ...
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Ecology of Harmful Algae
Harmful algal blooms are one of the consequences of the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, particularly the process of eutrophication. ...
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Economic Geology of Natural Gas Hydrate
This is the first book that attempts to broadly integrate the most recent knowledge in the fields of hydrate nucleation and ...
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Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity Theory, Tools and Applications
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety ...
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Environmental Crises
This book studies the art and science of analyzing, assessing and anticipating environmental change. Among the issues considered ...
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