Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Toward an Ecological Geography of the Sea -- The Progressive Exploration of Oceanic and Shelf Ecosystems -- The Availability of Timely Global Oceanographic Data from Satellites -- Internal Dynamics of Satellite-Observed Algal Blooms -- Our New Understanding of the Role of Very Small Organisms -- 2 Biogeographic Partition of the Ocean -- Taxonomic Diversity: The Shifting Baseline of Biogeography -- The Useful Results from 150 Years of Marine Biogeography -- Biogeographic Regions of the Pelagos -- Geographic Component of Benthic-Pelagic Coupling -- From Pristine to Modified Ecosystems -- 3 Fronts and Pycnoclines: Ecological Discontinuities -- Fronts and Frontal Systems -- Oceanic Fronts and Eddy Streets -- Shelf-Edge and Upwelling Fronts -- Tidal Fronts and River Plumes of the Shelf Seas -- The Ubiquitous "Horizontal Front" at the Shallow Pycnocline -- 4 Physical Control of Ecological Processes -- Ecological Consequences of Mesoscale Eddies and Planetary Waves -- Stratification and Irradiance: The Consequences of Latitude -- Regional and Latitudinal Resistance to Mixing in the Open Oceans -- Rule-Based Models of Ecological Response to External Forcing -- Case 1-Polar Irradiance-Mediated Production Peak -- Case 2-Nutrient-Limited Spring Production Peak -- Case 3-Winter-Spring Production with Nutrient Limitation -- Case 4-Small-Amplitude Response to Trade Wind Seasonality -- Case 5-Large-Amplitude Response to Monsoon-like Reversal of Trade Winds -- Case 6-Intermittent Production at Coastal Divergences -- Coastal Asymmetry, Geomorphology, and Tidal Forcing -- 5 Nutrient Limitation: The Example of Iron -- Nutrient Distribution and the Consequences of Differing Supply Ratios -- Regional Anomalies in Nutrient Limitation.

Models of Regional Nutrient Flux and Limitation -- 6 Biomes: The Primary Partition -- The Four Primary Biomes of the Upper Ocean -- Polar Biome -- Westerlies Biome -- Trades Biome -- Coastal Biome -- 7 Provinces: The Secondary Compartments -- Ecological Provinces in the Open Ocean -- Ways of Testing Static Province Boundaries in the Open Ocean -- A Statistical Test -- Analytical Tests -- Biogeographic Tests -- Practicable and Useful Partitions in Coastal Seas -- 8 Longer Term Responses: From Seasons to Centuries -- Scales of External Forcing -- Recurrent, ENSO-Scale Changes of State -- Multidecadal Trends and Changes -- Conclusion: Stable Partitions in a Varying Ocean? -- 9 The Atlantic Ocean -- Atlantic Polar Biome -- Boreal Polar Province (BPLR) -- Atlantic Arctic Province (ARCT) -- Atlantic Subarctic Province (SARC) -- Atlantic Westerly Winds Biome -- North Atlantic Drift Province (NADR) -- Gulf Stream Province (GFST) -- North Atlantic Subtropical Gyral Province (NAST-E, NAST-W) -- Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea Province (MEDI) -- Atlantic Trade Wind Biome -- North Atlantic Tropical Gyral Province (NATR) -- Caribbean Province (CARB) -- Western Tropical Atlantic Province (WTRA) -- Eastern Tropical Atlantic Province (ETRA) -- South Atlantic Gyral Province (SATL) -- Atlantic Coastal Biome -- Northeast Atlantic Shelves Province (NECS) -- Canary Current Coastal Province (CNRY) -- Guinea Current Coastal Province (GUIN) -- Benguela Current Coastal Province (BENG) -- Northwest Atlantic Shelves Province (NWCS) -- Guianas Coastal Province (GUIA) -- Brazil Current Coastal Province (BRAZ) -- Southwest Atlantic Shelves Province (FKLD) -- 10 The Indian Ocean -- Indian Ocean Trade Wind Biome -- Indian Monsoon Gyres Province (MONS) -- Indian South Subtropical Gyre Province (ISSG) -- Indian Ocean Coastal Biome -- Red Sea, Arabian Gulf Province (REDS).

Northwest Arabian Sea Upwelling Province (ARAB) -- Western India Coastal Province (INDW) -- Eastern India Coastal Province (INDE) -- Eastern Africa Coastal Province (EAFR) -- Australia-Indonesia Coastal Province (AUSW) -- 11 The Pacific Ocean -- Pacific Polar Biome -- North Pacific Epicontinental Sea Province (BERS) -- Pacific Westerly Winds Biome -- Pacific Subarctic Gyres Province, East and West (PSAG) -- Kuroshio Current Province (KURO) -- North Pacific Subtropical and Polar Front Provinces (NPST and NPPF) -- Tasman Sea Province (TASM) -- Pacific Trade Winds Biome -- North Pacific Tropical Gyre Province (NPTG) -- North Pacific Equatorial Countercurrent Province (PNEC) -- Pacific Equatorial Divergence Province (PEQD) -- Western Pacific Warm Pool Province (WARM) -- Archipelagic Deep Basins Province (ARCH) -- South Pacific Subtropical Gyre Province, North and South (SPSG) -- Pacific Coastal Biome -- Alaska Coastal Downwelling Province (ALSK) -- California Current Province (CALC) -- Central American Coastal Province (CAMR) -- Humboldt Current Coastal Province (HUMB) -- China Sea Coastal Province (CHIN) -- Sunda-Arafura Shelves Province (SUND) -- East Australian Coastal Province (AUSE) -- New Zealand Coastal Province (NEWZ) -- 12 The Southern Ocean -- Antarctic Westerly Winds Biome -- South Subtropical Convergence Province (SSTC) -- Subantarctic Water Ring Province (SANT) -- Antarctic Polar Biome -- Antarctic Province (ANTA) -- Austral Polar Province (APLR) -- References -- Index -- Color Plates.