Marine biology Book

The Committee for the International Prize for Biology decides annually the speciality within the field of biology for which prize will be awarded and in 1989 the prize was awarded in the area of Marine Biology. Coincidentally with the awarding of the Prize each year, an international symposium on topics relevant to the Prize is held under the support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. This volume contains the papers presented at the symposium held at Tokai Daigaku Koyu Kaikan in Tokyo on the 29th and 30th of November, 1989. The subject matter of the papers ranges broadly throughout the area of Marine Biology reflecting in many cases, the interdisciplinary approach required in ocean and coastal research. This work involves work on the natural history of the organisms, their histology, physiology, biochemistry and biophysics and their interactions with the biological, chemical and physical environment.