Biological Oceanography: An Introduction, Third Edition is a completely updated version of a classic undergraduate textbook, offering students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography that includes enhanced learning experiences with numerous illustrations, thorough chapter summaries, and with questions, answers, and comments. The comprehensive coverage of this book focuses on communicating the importance of the ocean for Earth’s habitability. This includes a revised focus on the anthropogenic impacts on oceans using the latest research on human-ocean interactions, as well as new and revised chapters highlighting this relationship and the importance of the ocean to human survival. Additional new material includes a description of the operations of a typical research ship and appendices with maps, units of measurement, and conversion.

• Enhances learning opportunities with questions and answers and conversion and unit charts, along with maps and color images
• Introduces students to ocean and marine organisms and the importance of these organisms, including microbes which have not yet been fully covered in any other marine biology texts
• Presents a look to the future, with challenges ahead, but also shows the issues that have been solved by science so far (ozone hole, acid rain)