Poul Holm, Tim D. Smith, and David J. Starkey (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780973007312
- eISBN:
- 9781786944733
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780973007312.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish ...
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The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.Less
The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.
R.C. Francis, J. Field, D. Holmgren, and A. Strom
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780973007312
- eISBN:
- 9781786944733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780973007312.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
R. C. Francis, J. Field, D. Holmgren and A. Strom traces the historical record of the west coast North American marine ecosystem through historical, paleoclimatological, and environmental disciplines ...
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R. C. Francis, J. Field, D. Holmgren and A. Strom traces the historical record of the west coast North American marine ecosystem through historical, paleoclimatological, and environmental disciplines in order to understand its development over centuries of change. The results show that large-scale climate forcing is a core factor in the fluctuating stock of coastal species over the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.Less
R. C. Francis, J. Field, D. Holmgren and A. Strom traces the historical record of the west coast North American marine ecosystem through historical, paleoclimatological, and environmental disciplines in order to understand its development over centuries of change. The results show that large-scale climate forcing is a core factor in the fluctuating stock of coastal species over the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
