Introduction
1: Sampling sediments
2: The sediment and related environmental factors
3: Describing assemblages of sediment-living organisms
4: Diversity
5: Functional diversity of benthic assemblages
6: Spatial variations in sediment systems
7: Temporal variations in benthic assemblages
8: Human impacts on soft sediment systems - trawling and
fisheries
9: Human impacts on soft sediment systems - pollution
10: The soft-sediment benthos in the ecosystem
11: The benthos in the management of marine sediments
Concluding remarks
John S. Gray was Professor of Marine Biology at the University of
Oslo, Norway and did research on marine soft sediments for over 40
years. He is one of ISIs Highly-Cited Scientists in Plant and
Animal Ecology. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Arts
and Letters and a recipient of the Fridtjof Nansen prize for his
research. In 2006 he was a co-recipient of the John Martin award of
the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography. He did
research in the
Arctic, Antarctic, Great Barrier Reef, Vanuatu, Hong Kong, the East
and West coasts of USA and the North Sea and Norwegian continental
shelf. Sadly, John died in October 2007, just days after
submitting his final manuscript. Michael Elliott is Professor of
Estuarine & Coastal Sciences and the Director of the Institute of
Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS) at the University of Hull,
United Kingdom and has been researching estuarine and coastal
science and management for 35 years. His research particularly
relates to the influence of human activities on estuarine and
marine ecology and the way in which society manages those
activities. He has published widely on many
aspects of these topics including the related text 'The Estuarine
Ecosystem' (co-authored with Donald S McLusky). He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Biology and President of the Estuarine & Coastal
Sciences Association
(ECSA)
This volume will be a useful and quick introduction for graduate
students and advanced undergraduates of the analysis of benthic
sampling for use in monitoring programs and integrative studies
that seek to extract general features of communities from large
sampling schemes.
*The Quarterly Review of Biology*
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