Marine Community Ecology and Conservation

• 1: A Short History of Marine Community Ecology, Mark D. Bertness, John F. Bruno, Brian R. Silliman, and John J. Stachowicz


• PART 1. PROCESSES THAT GENERATE PATTERN IN MARINE COMMUNITIES


• 2: The Physical Context of Marine Communities, Marc Weissburg, Brian Helmuth, and Jon Witman


• 3: Foundation Species in Marine Ecosystems, Andrew H. Altieri and Johan van de Koppel


• 4: Marine Dispersal, Ecology, and Conservation, Stephen R. Palumbi and Malin L. Pinsky


• 5: The Role of Infectious Diseases in Marine Communities, Kevin D. Lafferty and C. Drew Harvell


• 6: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Does Pattern Influence Process?, Mary I. O'Connor and Jarrett E. Byrnes


• 7: The Biogeography of Marine Communities, Eric Sanford


• 8: Marine Historical Ecology: Informing the Future by Learning from the Past, Heike K. Lotze and Loren McClenachan


• PART 2. COMMUNITY TYPES


• 9: Intertidal Rocky Shores, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi and Geoffrey C. Trussell


• 10: Soft-Sediment Communities, James E. Byers and Jonathan H. Grabowski


• 11: Salt Marsh Communities, Mark D. Bertness and Brian R. Silliman


• 12: Ecology of Seagrass Communities J. Emmett Duffy, A. Randall Hughes, and Per-Olav Moksnes


• 13: Coral Reef Ecosystems: A Decade of Discoveries, Isabelle M. Côté and Nancy Knowlton


• 14: Kelp Forests: Dynamic Patterns, Processes, and Feedbacks, Robert S. Steneck and Craig R. Johnson


• 15: Pelagic Communities, Jonathan A. D. Fisher and Kenneth T. Frank


• 16: Phytoplankton Communities, Kyle F. Edwards and Elena Litchman


• 17: Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities, Lauren S. Mullineaux


• PART 3. CONSERVATION


• 18: Services of Marine Ecosystems: A Quantitative Perspective, Edward B. Barbier, Heather M. Leslie, and Fiorenza Micheli

Mark Bertness is Robert Brown Professor of Biology at Brown University. He was born in Tacoma, Washington and grew up exploring the shores of Puget Sound. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1971. He has been at Brown University since 1980. Dr. Bertness is the author of Atlantic Shoreline Ecology: A Natural History, published by Princeton University Press in 2006. His research focuses on the structure, dynamics and conservation of shoreline communities--particularly salt marsh plant communities--and the sessile invertebrate and seaweed communities of rocky shores.

John Bruno is a marine ecologist and Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research is focused on marine biodiversity, coral reef ecology and conservation, and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. He earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University in disease ecology. Dr. Bruno is currently working primarily in Belize, the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Galapagos Islands. He is an avid blogger and co-developer of the oceans website SeaMonster.

Brian Silliman is the Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He holds both B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Virginia, and completed his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. Dr. Silliman was named a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow with The Nature Conservancy in 2004 and a Visiting Professor with the Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Sciences in 2011. He has also received several awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists (2006), a Young Investigator Grant Award from the Andrew Mellon Foundation (2007), and a NSF Career Grant Award (2011). Dr. Silliman has published thirteen book chapters

In the second edition of Marine Community Ecology and Conservation, Bertness and co-editors provide an update of the dominant elements of marine community ecology as well as the now maturing science of our generation: conservation. The editors state that the book is intended to fill intellectual gaps and update readers on new developments in applied ecology in the oceans. The book targets upper-level undergraduate to graduate level users. We feel that the book achieves this goal and is a very useful resource for graduate-level readers. Anna Shaffer, Marine Ecology