Overview
First comprehensive description of world's the most productive marine ecosystems
Covers the four major eastern boundary current upwelling regions
Looks into the functioning of many other seasonal upwelling systems
Serves as an excellent textbook for undergraduate & postgraduate students
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Upwelling systems are special places in the oceans where nutrient-enriched water is brought into the euphotic zone to fuel phytoplankton blooms that, via marine food-web interactions, create the world’s richest fish resources. This book introduces the reader to the interdisciplinary science of upwelling and provides a comprehensive overview of the world’s most productive marine ecosystems in the context of climate variability, climate change and human exploitation. This material presented is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate study or just for anyone interested to learn about the creation of life in the oceans and how this is compromised by human activities.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jochen Kämpf is an Associate Professor of Oceanography at the School of the Environment at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Including the discovery of several important coastal upwelling regions, his previous research covered a broad range of subjects from small-scale convective mixing in polar regions, the circulation of inverse estuaries, suspended sediment dynamics and turbidity currents to canyon-flow interactions. He also published two textbooks on hydrodynamic modelling at Springer.
Piers Chapman is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University, where he currently works on the physics and chemistry of the Gulf of Mexico, concentrating on the low oxygen environment that forms each year in summer. He worked for many years in South Africa, has published widely on the Benguela upwelling system, and has been on over 50 research cruises totalling almost three years at sea.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Upwelling Systems of the World
Book Subtitle: A Scientific Journey to the Most Productive Marine Ecosystems
Authors: Jochen Kämpf, Piers Chapman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42524-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42522-1Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82600-4Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42524-5Published: 29 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 433
Number of Illustrations: 200 b/w illustrations
Topics: Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Oceanography, Coastal Sciences, Ecosystems