Marine Hard Bottom Communities

Part I Habitat, substrata and communities1. Aquatic particularities and functional groups2. Communities on different shallow substrata3. Communities on deep-sea hard bottoms4. Communities on living substrata: epibiosesPart II Diversity patterns and their causes5. Latitudinal patterns of species richness in hard bottom communities6. Regional scale patterns7. Patterns along environmental gradients8. Evolutionary patterns of diversity and their causes9. Environmental variability: analysis and ecological implicationsPart III Community Dynamics10. Fertilization strategies11. Larval supply and dispersal12. Settlement and recruitment13. Seasonal dynamics14. Disruption, succession and stochasticity15. Changes in diversity and ecosystem functioning during succession16. Simple and complex interactionsPart IV Changing Biodiversity17. Anthropogenic changes in patterns of diversity on hard substrata: an overview18. Shifts in abiotic variables and consequences for diversity19. The loss of natural habitats and the addition of artificial substrata20. Multiple stressors & disturbances: when change is not the nature of things21. Mass mortalities and Extinctions22. Biological Invasions: Insights from marine benthic communities23. Habitat distribution and heterogeneity in marine invasion dynamics: The importance of hard substrate and artificial structure24. Rehabilitation of habitat and the value of artificial reefs25. Protection of biota and the value of marine protected areasPart V Value of Diversity26. The role of biodiversity for the functioning of rocky reef communities27. Functional and taxonomic perspectives of marine biodiversity: functional diversity and ecosystem processes28. Mechanisms underpinning diversity-stability relationships in hard bottom assemblages29. The aesthetic value of littoral hard substrata and consideration of ethical frameworks for their investigation and conservationPart VI Appropriate research methods30. Field methods in marine ecology

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