Biodiversität & Ökotrophologie

Seamounts

Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands of seamounts, they are usually formed from vol...

Advances in Fisheries Economics

A true landmark publication, Advances in Fisheries Economics brings together many of the world’s leading fisheries economists to authoritatively cover the many issues facing the field of fisheri...

The Forests Handbook, Volume 1

The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and climate change are highlighting the need both to conserve a...

The Forests Handbook, Volume 2

The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and climate change are highlighting the need both to conserve a...

Geostatistics for Estimating Fish Abundance

K. G. Foote / N. Bez / J. Simmonds / J. Rivoirard / P. Fernandes

Geostatistics is a branch of spatial statistics that was originally developed for the mining industry. The technique is now widely recognised as an important tool for the estimation of the abundan...

Plant Secondary Metabolites

Plant secondary metabolites have been a fertile area of chemical investigation for many years, driving the development of both analytical chemistry and of new synthetic reactions and methodologies...

Metal Contamination of Food

Conor Reilly

Since publication of the previous edition of this successful book, there have been many advances in the field of food science and metal analysis and these have been taken into account of in compil...

Plant Food Allergens

<i>Plant Food Allergens is concerned with a paradox of immense, potentially life-threatening significance to about 1 in 100 adults and 1 in 10 children. The paradox is that certain nutritiou...

Fishes in Estuaries

This landmark publication collates information and studies on the use of estuaries, and specific habitats within them, as nursery, feeding and refuge areas, and migration routes of marine and othe...

Food, Fermentation and Micro-organisms

Charles W. Bamforth

Fermentation and the use of micro-organisms is one of the most important aspects of food processing, an industry worth billions of US dollars world-wide. From beer and wine to yoghurt and bread, i...

Fisheries Acoustics

David N. MacLennan / John Simmonds

Living resources of the sea and fresh water have long been an important source of food and economic activity. With fish stocks continuing to be over-exploited, there is a clear focus on fisheries ...

Interactions Between Fish and Birds

Ian G. Cowx

The interactions between wild bird populations (many protected by law) and fish, particularly those under commercial culture or part of a fishery is subject of much controversy. Ecological, enviro...

Recreational Fisheries

Recreational or sport fishing is important for three major reasons:<br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>economic (it is a multi-bil...

Applications of Fluidization to Food Processing

Peter G. Smith

Fluidization is a technique that enables solid particles to take on some of the properties of a fluid. Despite being very widely used within the food processing industry, understanding of this imp...

Pesticides

Despite a history of several decades of pesticide regulation, continuous innovation, and considerable practical experience with using pesticides in agriculture, the environmental impact of pestici...

Eco-labelling in Fisheries

If the marine fishing industry is to survive into the future, innovative approaches are necessary. Recognising that market incentives have the potential to improve fisheries management, the Marine...

Salmon at the Edge

<i>Salmon at the Edge</i> covers, in depth, the problems faced by wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal zones, and in their early weeks at sea. The book also refl...

Aquaculture and the Environment

T. V. R. Pillay

<i>Aquaculture and the Environment</i><br /> <i>Second Edition</i><br /> T. V. R. Pillay<br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>The continuing ra...

The Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Salmon is a cultural icon throughout its North Atlantic range; it is the focus of probably the World’s highest profile recreational fishery and is the basis for one of the World’s lar...

Sea Trout

The Brown trout displays widely divergent life history strategies involving, variously, usage of streams, rivers, lakes, estuaries and the sea. The sea trout is the full sea-going form, it is very...