List of Contributors.
Foreword (Stephen F. Ackley).
Chapter 1 The Importance of Sea Ice: An Overview.
Chapter 2 Growth, Structure and Properties of Sea Ice.
Chapter 3 Sea Ice and Oceanography.
Chapter 4 Dynamics Versus Thermodynamics: The Sea Ice Thickness Distribution.
Chapter 5 Snow and Sea Ice.
Chapter 6 Variability and Trends of the Global Sea Ice Cover.
Chapter 7 Sea ice bacteria and viruses.
Chapter 8 Primary Producers and Sea Ice.
Chapter 9 Heterotrophic Protists associated with Sea ice.
Chapter 10 Sea Ice Meio- and Macrofauna.
Chapter 11 Sea Ice: A Critical Habitat for Polar Marine Mammals and Birds.
Chapter 12 Biogeochemistry of Sea Ice.
Chapter 13 Palaeo Sea Ice Distribution and Reconstruction Derived from the Geological Record.
Chapter 14 Sea Ice in Non-Polar Regions.
Chapter 15 Sea ice and Astrobiology.
Glossary.
Index.
David N. Thomas is based at the School of Ocean Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, U. K.
Gerhard S. Dieckmann is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
"Thus, I unconditionally recommend this book to the serious student of climate change as well as to the more experienced researcher involved in any aspect of sea ice research as a most valuable resource on the subject of sea ice and its role in the global system." (Polar Biol, 2010)
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