Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim

population - much of which exists at or below poverty level.

Table of Contents:
Prologue; Background and focus; I: Regime Shifts; A dynamical scenario for simultaneous "regime-scale" marine population shifts in widely separated LMEs of the Pacific; Large-scale climate-related changes in the carrying capacity of salmon in the Strait of Georgia and northern North Pacific ecosystems; The interdecal climatic change signal in the temperate LMEs of the Pacific; Long-term variations in pelagic communities in the large marine ecosystems of the West Pacific Ocean; Present state and trends of the Bering Sea epipelagic nekton communities in relation to global climatic-oceanographic change; Long-term change in the North Pacific Ocean: a consideration of some important issues; Plankton patterns, climate and change in the California Current; Interannual variations in zooplankton biomass in the Gulf of Alaska, and covariation with California Current zooplankton biomass; II: Case Studies; Eastern Bering Sea Ecosystem trends; Status and perspectives of living marine resources of the Yellow Sea ecosystem in Korean Waters; Ecology and variability of economically important pelagic fishes in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea; The Large Marine Ecosystem of the Japan Sea; Changes in the biomass of the East China Sea ecosystem; Changing state and health of the Gulf of Thailand Large Marine Ecosystem; Effects of physical and biological changes on the biomass yield of the Humboldt Current ecosystem; Stratified models of Large Marine Ecosystems: a general approach and an application to the South China Sea; III: Methodological Studies; Differences between boreal and temperate multispecies fisheries systems: form and implications for multispecies assessment and management; The significance and prediction of predation in marine fisheries; Acoustic assessment as an available technique in monitoring the living resources of large marine ecosystems; Shoal structure of commercially important pelagic fish in relation to the dynamics of upwelling marine ecosystems; Measurements of the upper ocean structure using towed profiling systems; Automated systems for marine monitoring and ecological research; High-resolution biogeochemical monitoring for assessing environmental and ecological changes in marginal seas using ferry boats; IV: Indicators of Ecosystem Health; Nutrients in the Bohai Sea; Ecological carrying capacity of semi-enclosed Large Marine Ecosystems; Alteration of fatty acid composition of coastal diatoms under cadmium stress; Gills and skin as bio-indicators of water pollution in fish from freshwater and the Yellow Sea; Pollution in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: monitoring, research and ecological effects; V: Management Linkages; Management of the Great Barrier Reef as a Large Marine Ecosystem; Borneo's marine ecosystem and the greenhouse risk factor: a national perspective; Large Marine Ecosystems: assessment and management from drainiage basins to ocean; VI: Recommendations