Seamounts Ecology Fisheries and Conservation

Tony J. Pitcher, Telmo Morato, Paul J. B. Hart, Malcolm R. Clark, Nigel Haggan, Ricardo Serrão Santos1405133430, 978-1-4051-3343-2

Table of contents :
Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries & Conservation……Page 1
Contents……Page 7
List of Contributors……Page 10
Series Editors Foreword……Page 16
Preface……Page 19
Publisher’s Acknowledgement……Page 24
Acknowledgements……Page 25
Part I Introduction and Characterization of Seamounts……Page 27
1 Seamount characteristics……Page 29
2 How many seamounts are there and where are they located?……Page 52
3 A history of seamount research……Page 67
Part II Biophysical coupling on seamounts……Page 89
4 Physical processes and seamount productivity……Page 91
5 Seamount plankton dynamics……Page 111
6 Midwater fish assemblages and seamounts……Page 127
Part III Biology and ecology of seamount organisms……Page 143
7 Seamount benthos……Page 145
8 Corals on seamounts……Page 167
9 Seamount fishes: ecology and life histories……Page 196
Section A: Tunas and billfish at seamounts……Page 215
Section B: Aggregations of large pelagic sharks above seamounts……Page 228
11 Seamounts and cephalopods……Page 233
Section A: Marine mammals……Page 256
Section B: Sea turtles……Page 265
Section C: Importance of seamounts to seabirds……Page 271
Part IV Synoptic views of seamounts……Page 279
13 Biogeography and biodiversity of seamounts……Page 281
14 Raiding the larder: a quantitative evaluation framework and trophic signature for seamount food webs……Page 308
15 Modelling seamount ecosystems and their fisheries……Page 322
Part V Exploitation, management and conservation……Page 359
16 Small-scale fishing on seamounts……Page 361
17 Large-scale distant-water trawl fisheries on seamounts……Page 387
18 Catches from world seamount fisheries……Page 426
19 Impacts of fisheries on seamounts……Page 439
20 Management and conservation of seamounts……Page 468
21 The depths of ignorance: an ecosystem evaluation framework for seamount ecology, fisheries and conservation……Page 502
Glossary……Page 515
Subject Index……Page 525
Author index……Page 537
Species index……Page 549