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  title info:
    title: Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
    sub title: Volume 2: Fish Resources, Fisheries, Sea Turtles, Avian Resources, Marine Mammals, Diseases and Mortalities
  name:
    name part: Ward, C. Herb.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: LXV, 891 p. 551 illus., 519 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. Nutrients and pollutants from coastal communities and dozens of rivers flow into the Gulf, including material from the Mississippi River watershed, which drains over one third of continental United States. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that began on April 20, 2010. Volume 1 begins with an overview of the following 13 chapters and focuses on the big picture rather than the details of habitat quality and biota. Volume 1 covers: • Water and sediment quality and contaminants, to provide perspective on environmental conditions in the Gulf. • Natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, to identify natural sources of exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons. • Coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology. • Offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf. • Shellfish and finfish…
  note: edited by C. Herb Ward.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Marine & Freshwater Sciences
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781493934560
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3456-0
  access condition: Open Access
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    record creation date: 170626
    record change date: 20170817021739.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4939-3456-0