Front cover -- LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF ALASKA -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ecosystem Structure -- Chapter 3: Agents of Ecosystem Change -- Chapter 4: Long-Term Change -- Chapter 5: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill -- Chapter 6: Long-Term Changes in the GOA: Properties and Causes -- Subject Index
Summary
This comprehensive text is a major synthesis on ecological change in the Gulf of Alaska. It encompasses the structural and annual changes, forces of change, long-ecological changes in the atmosphere and ocean, plankton, fish, birds and mammals, and the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill