Download or read book Marine Biodiversity written by Rupert F. G. Ormond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until we have a firmer idea of the diversity of a wide range of marine habitats and what controls it, we have little hope of conserving biodiversity, or determining the impact of human activities such as mariculture, fishing, dumping of waste and pollution. This book brings together key studies from the deep sea and open ocean, to tropical shores and polar regions, to consider how comparable the patterns and processes underlying diversity are in these different ecosystems.