1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557213803321

Autore

Evashwick Connie J

Titolo

Hospitals' Benefit to the Community: Research, Policy and Evaluation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 p.)

Soggetti

Medicine and Nursing

Public health and preventive medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020209803321

Titolo

Commercial fishing : the wider ecological impacts / / edited by Geoff Moore & Simon Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Published for the British Ecological Society by Blackwell, 2000

ISBN

9786612122781

9781282122789

1282122789

9780470694961

0470694963

9780470694855

0470694858

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 p.)

Collana

Ecological issues series

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreP. G (P. Geoffrey)

JenningsSimon (Marine scientist)

Disciplina

639.22

Soggetti

Fisheries - Environmental aspects

Marine ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).

Nota di contenuto

Commercial fishing: the wider ecological impacts; Contents; Key Points; 1 Commercial fishing: the wider ecological impacts; 1.1 Introduction; 2 Fishing gears and their operation; 2.1 Gear selectivity; 2.2 Pelagic drifting gears; 2.3 Bottom set gears; 2.4 Pelagic mobile gears; 2.5 Bottom mobile gears; 2.6 SCUBA diving, explosives, poisons; 3 Effects of litter from fishing gear; 3.1 'Ghost' fishing; 3.2 Ingestion offragments offishinggear by marine mammals, turtles and seabirds; 4 Vulnerability of different marine habitats; 4.1 Mud; 4.2 Sand; 4.3 Gravel and mixed grounds; 4.4 Maerl

4.5 Coral, coralligene and rocky reef habitats4.6 Seagrass meadows; 4.7 Kelp forests; 4.8 Sea mounts; 4.9 Relative vunerability; 5 Effects on non-target organisms; 5.1 Sea birds; 5.2 Sea mammals; 5.3 Sea turtles; 5.4 Sea snakes; 5.5 Benthic scavengers; 6 Community and ecosystem responses; 6.1 Community diversity; 6.2 Habitat structure; 6.3 Benthopelagic coupling; 6.4 Species interactions; 6.5 Assessing



fisheries effects; 7 Conservation aspects and the way forward; 7.1 Marine reserves; 7.2 Practical conservation measures; 8 Further reading; 9 Glossary; 10 Acronyms; 11 Addresses of contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Fishing provides food, income and employment for millions of people. However, fishing has environmental costs that threaten rare species, marine ecosystems and the sustainability of the resource. Based on the research expertise of leading scientists, Commercial Fishing: the Wider Ecological Impacts provides a lively, timely and accessible account of fishing activities and their impacts on marine habitats, biodiversity and species of conservation concern. It covers fishing methods that range from trawling in the Antarctic to fishing with dynamite in the tropics. The authors s