...Invasion of sea lamprey and commercial fisheries combined historically to cause collapse of many native fish populations in the Great Lakes. Due to subsequent control of sea lamprey, many native fish populations are restored and are now more abundant in Lake Superior than at any recorded time...

... changes, particularly sea level change. The model of speciation presented synthesizes these observations with contemporary views on ecological speciation, emphasizing the role of developmental flexibility in permitting the rapid production of new anatomical variants that then sort into ecological niches...

...Theoretically, the wages, conditions, punishment, and work performed by seamen on American merchant vessels were governed by the admiralty and maritime law of the United States. At the level of the individual vessel, however, life and labor at sea were determined by an amalgamation of tradition...

... tar from the hideous, wanton, and dangerous characters in merchant vessels that were common in popular pirate literature and deathbed confessionals. This chapter examines the discourse that moved from merchant vessels to courts and out to the wider world of American literature in which the sea...

... nature of interaction at the time, as opposed to problems to be eradicated by the analyst. Egypt Mediterranean Sea Mesopotamia Roman Empire Braudel Fernand cabotage Horden Peregrine longue durée Mediterraneanism Purcell Nicholas Broodbank Cyprian Lévi Strauss Claude Phoenicians Al Mina...

...Although the two great mercantile explorers of the Mediterranean, Greeks and Phoenicians, established outposts around the circumference of the sea in the early first millennium BCE, neither seems to have shown great interest in the adjacent Black Sea – this, despite the Black Sea’s mineral...

...During the 1970s both the CCMS and the Science Committee took environmentalism in their stride by promoting novel actions and research (on sea pollution, air quality, clean car engines and much more). While describing the nature of these initiatives, this chapter shows NATO's efforts to run counter...

...Figure 1. The western Arctic in 1861. Russian and British fur trading activities were consolidated Strait and the Mackenzie River. Inuit living along the Beaufort Sea coast negotiated these empires and stemmed their northward expansion. Map by Morgan Jarocki. Figure 2. Illustration...

... narratives concerning the South China Sea, Preah Vihear, Arunachal Pradesh, the Senkaku Islands, and the selection of the present Dalai Lama’s reincarnation. Unblocking these sovereignty conflicts requires a major pluralistic reinterpretation of the Asian past if we are to achieve a more open understanding...

... sciences would serve commercial and military ends, with improved transport and mapping systems within France and more accurate navigation techniques for long sea voyages. astronomical instruments Cassini Jacques Cassini II expeditions geodetical instruments Journal historique de la république des...

...This chapter focuses on major changes in the food web dynamics of Lakes Superior and Michigan that arose due to fisheries management programs and nonnative species invasions. It emphasizes both native and nonnative species representing three trophic levels: (i) top predators in the food web (sea...

... macroecological patterns in the sea and understanding the processes that generate them. Taking stock of the current work in the field and advocating a research agenda for the decades ahead, this book draws together insights and approaches from a diverse group of scientists to show how marine ecology can benefit...

...In the face of the increasing complexity, disciplinization and nationalization of knowledge in the nineteenth century, the sea can do useful symbolic work in maintaining the possibility of a universalized global history. This chapter starts with Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, linking its...

... Sea: both were imagined, in different poetic and cartographic traditions (ranging from Ptolemy to Islamic cartography), as enclosed oceans. In Os Lusíadas, then, Camões paints his protagonist Vasco da Gama as a new Hercules, who masterfully opens up the Indian Ocean by passing the Cape of Good Hope...

... Speciation Endemic species Gastropods Development direct Development planktotrophic Life histories Biotic interactions Range limit California Point Conception El Niño Abundance Climate change Scale dispersal distance sea marine systems macroecological characteristics geographic ranges One...

...This chapter examines two important historical episodes of misguided legislative reactions to a financial crisis. One is the run on the Bank of England in 1696, which produced a statute regulating stockbrokers in 1697. The second is the infamous South Sea bubble of 1720, which produced the Bubble...

...-Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations. Biodiversity Caribbean Indo Australian Area IAA Algae Center of accumulation Center of origin Corals reef building Indo Pacific Latitudinal diversity gradient Longitudinal diversity gradient Macroalgae Null models Extinction local Extinction models Extinction...

... musical expressions that would become known as white as well as black. abolition Brown William Wells Douglass Frederick DuBois W E B Greenfield Elizabeth Taylor Butler Pierce chanteys Kemble Fanny sea chanteys slavery work songs Ware Harriet Coverly Nathaniel Jr McGaffrey Henry Olmstead...

... by bicultural writers, including Turkish Germans and the exophonic Yoko Tawada, as well as W. B. Yeats with his visions of daimons and antiselves. The novelist Una Troy and the playwright Ferenc Herczeg discover truth in the duplicitous conditions of comparable bridges. The Adriatic Sea, a broad place...

... Atlantic geographies in expansionist maps. The second is a subset of a group of medieval Galician-Portuguese poems in the voice of women, the "cantigas de amigo," in which poets imagine water, sea, nautical travel, and emotion in maritime environments and experiences and that constitute part...