Marine protected areas : tools for sustaining ocean ecosystems / Committee on the Evaluation, Design, and Monitoring of Marine Reserves and Protected Areas in the United States, Ocean Studies Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.

Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human impacts such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution disrupt marine ecosystems and threaten the long-term productivity of the seas. Declining yields in many fisheries and decay of treasured mari...

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Online Access:	Electronic book from EBSCO
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Marine parks and reserves. Electronic books.