Marine Ecological Field Methods: A Guide for Marine Biologists and Fisheries Scientists

A comprehensive, clear, and detailed guide to procedures for conducting marine ecological field studies

Marine Ecological Field Methods is a comprehensive resource that offers the most relevant sampling methodologies for quantitative and qualitative studies of mesopelagic, demersal, littoral, and soft-bottom organisms, as well as relevant physical parameters. The authors describe how various sampling gears work, how to operate them, their limitations, guides on sorting and measuring collected organisms, and how to deal with subsamples of large catches. The text also explains how to use acoustic equipment for monitoring aggregations of organisms, for example fish shoals, as well as the use of sensors for registering environmental variables such as salinity, temperature, oxygen, and light.

The text contains cutting-edge research techniques that are in their final stages of development for use in research surveys. Marine Ecological Field Methods is designed to help with the entire procedure for conducting a field study, including the generation of hypotheses, planning field collection of data, conducting field work, data exploration and statistical analysis with the use of R, and presentation of results in a final report. This essential resource:

• Covers a wide range of techniques and methods for the marine environment
• Includes tried and trusted methodologies and techniques from a team of noted experts in the field
• Contains information on sampling equipment ranging from those that are useful in the littoral zone to shallow nearshore areas, including bottles, secchi discs, and gillnets, and finally large trawls, benthic sleds, ROV and advanced technologies for remote sensing in the open ocean.
• Explores the step-by-step procedures for conducting a field study, from formulating hypotheses to the process of registering and reporting results

Written for students and professionals in the field, this vital resource describes marine ecological sampling equipment, methods and analysis, ranging from physical parameters to fish, microalgae, zooplankton, benthos and macroalgae.

Keywords: marine-data-analysis; marine biology; marine monitoring; mesopelagic sampling; remote sensing; fisheries surveys; fish sampling; plankton sampling; benthos sampling; processing-marine samples; analysing the marine environment; marine field studies; marine ecological sampling; marine ecological equipment; marine ecological methods; marine ecological analysis; marine technologies; analysing microalgae; analysing zooplankton; analysing benthos; analysing macroalgae; marine biological data collection; marine biological data handling; marine biological data analysis; marine sampling equipment; marine survey and sampling design; characteristics of marine organisms;Marine Ecological Field Methods; A Guide for Marine Biologists and Fisheries Scientists; Anne Gro Salvanes; Jennifer Devine; Knut Helge Jensen; Jon Thomassen Hestetun; Kjersti Sj?tun; Henrik Glenner, Marine Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology, Biological Oceanography