Marine Biology 11th Edition by Peter Castro
Print ISBN: 9781259880032, 1259880036
eText ISBN: 9781260162615, 1260162613
By: Peter Castro
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Print ISBN: 9781259880032, 1259880036
eText ISBN: 9781260162615, 1260162613
Edition: 11th
Copyright year: 2019
Preface
CHANGES IN THE ELEVENTH EDITION
Like all new editions of Marine Biology, we have made extensive
revisions to the eleventh edition to correct errors, incorporate new
information, and improve readability. In many cases our revisions
reflect comments by reviewers, whose suggestions we greatly appreciate.
Much of the data presented in the eleventh edition has been
updated to the latest information available at the time of writing.
Updates include, among others, numbers of known species in various
taxonomic groups, conservation status and population sizes
of many threatened species, shark-attack frequency, data on global
and regional climate, sea level, CO2, hypoxic zones, paralytic shellfish
poisoning, and the Antarctic ozone hole. The latest available
data are also used for fisheries catches, aquaculture production, and
seafood demand and consumption, and the extent of Arctic sea ice.
Many chapters in the eleventh edition include more information
on the effects of global change on species and ecosystems in
addition to the Special Report: Our Changing Planet. The coverage
also in many cases reflects increasing scientific certainty regarding
global change and its effects on the ocean.
We have updated or added information on many other topics.
There are too many such changes to fully list here, but examples
include the following:
