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PREFACE; PART I. PRINCIPLES OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY; Soundingthe Deep; Ecological and Evolutionary Principles; PART II. MARINE ORGANISMS:FUNCTION AND ENVIRONMENT; The Chemical and Physical Environment; Production,Dispersal, and Migration; Life in a Fluid Medium; PART III. ORGANISMS OF THEOPEN SEA; The Water Column: Plankton; The Water Column: Nekton; PART IV.PROCESSES IN THE OPEN SEA; Critical Factors in Plankton Abundance;Productivity in the Sea; PART V. ORGANISMS OF THE SEA BED; The Diversity ofBenthic Marine Invertebrates; Seaweeds, Sea Grasses, and BenthicMicroorganisms; Benthic Life Habits; PART VI. COASTAL BENTHIC ENVIRONMENTS;The Tidelands: Rocky Shores, Soft Substratum Shores, Marshes, Mangroves, andEstuaries; Sea Grass beds, Kelp Forests, Rocky Reefs, and Coral Reefs; PARTVII. PROCESSES ON THE SEA BED, FROM THE SHELF TO THE DEEP SEA; From theContinental Shelf to the Deep Sea; Biodiversity and Conservation of theOcean; PART VIII. HUMAN IMPACT ON THE SEA; Food from the Sea; MarinePollution; GLOSSARY; MARINE BIOLOGY JOURNALS