Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now‎.‎ What is less well documented is the effect of such activities‎,‎ including climate change‎,‎ on marine biodiversity‎.‎ This pioneering book is the first to address this important but neglected topic‎,‎ which is likely to be the key challenge for marine scientists in the near future‎.‎ Using a multidisciplinary and a holistic approach‎,‎ the book reveals how climatic variability controls biodiversity at time scales ranging from synoptic meteorological events to millions of years and at spatial scales ranging from local sites to the whole ocean‎.‎ It shows how global change‎,‎ including anthropogenic climate change‎,‎ ocean acidification and more direct human influences such as exploitation‎,‎ pollution and eutrophication may alter biodiversity‎,‎ ecosystem functioning and regulating and provisioning services‎.‎ The author proposes a theory termed the ‎'‎macroecological theory on the arrangement of life‎'‎‎,‎ which explains how biodiv‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎