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Synopsis Marine ecology is concerned with environmental factors and problems of organic adjustments quite different from those in fresh water. Strictly speaking marine pollution may also be of natural origin. For example, it may be caused by underwater gas and oil eruptions, or by the intensive growth and subsequent death of certain micro-organisms, which are responsible for the familiar disastrous red tides. Marine ecology and pollution can be studied under three principal, categories: Biochemistry of pollutions; marine ecotoxicology; and biological principles of anti-pollution measures. Nature of oceanic life; Marine ecology and oceanographic environment; Concepts in marine pollution; Marine pollutants and their sources; The effects of marine pollution; Marine oil pollution; Protection of Mediterannean Sea against pollution etc. are categorically discussed in this book. The rich contents will equip the readers concerned with uptodate knowledge in the field.