Seamounts brings together our current knowledge of seamounts, concentrating on the themes of recruitment and vulnerability of seamount organisms, impacts on seamount biodiversity, and the sustainability and economic basis of seamount fisheries.

Seamounts world-wide have been so intensively exploited by fisheries that many of their biotic components have suffered serious depletion.

Contents

Introduction and Characterization of Seamounts

1. Seamount Characteristics
2. How Many Seamounts are There and Where are They Located?
3. A History of Seamount Research

Biophyiscal Coupling on Seamounts

4. Physical Processes and Seamount Productivity
5. Seamount Plankton Dynamics
6. Midwater Fish Assemblages and Seamounts

Biology and Ecology of Seamount Organisms

7. Seamount Benthos
8. Corals on Seamounts
9. Seamounts Fishes: Ecology and Life Histories
10. Fish Visitors to Seamounts
11. Seamounts and Cephalopods
12. Air-Breathing Visitors to Seamounts

Synoptic Views of Seamounts

13. Biogeography and Biodiversity of Seamounts
14. Raiding the Larder: A Quantitative Evaluation Framework and Trophic Signature for Seamount Food Webs
15. Modelling Seamount Ecosystems and Their Fisheries

Exploitation, Management and Conservation

16. Small-Scale Fishing on Seamounts
17. Large-Scale Distant-Water Trawl Fisheries on Seamounts
18. Catches From World Seamounts Fisheries
19. Impacts of Fisheries on Seamounts
20. Management and Conservation of Seamounts
21. The Depths of Ignorance: An Ecosystem Evaluation Framework for Seamount Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation

Index

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