| Summary: | Book review of: Ecology of Fjords and Coastal Waters, edited by H.R. Skjodal, C. Hopkins, K.E. Erikstad and H.P. Leinaas. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1995, 632 pp, i-xviii, USS 268.75,ISBN 0-444-82096-5.-- 2 pages This volume is a collection of 46 of the 89 papers delivered at the Symposium on the Ecology of Fjords and Coastal Waters held at Tromso in December 1994, the culmination of the Norwegian Research Programme on North Norwegian Coastal Ecology, undertaken in 1990 to investigate the causes of the marked fluctuations in biological and environmental factors that have taken place in Norwegian coastal areas, e.g., declines in kelp forests due to grazing by sea urchins, the collapse of the capelin and cod stocks in the Barents Sea, mass harp seal invasions, and the size of extremely voracious seabird populations [.] Peer reviewed
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