Perspectives and Regional Syntheses -- Biogeochemistry of Continental Margins in a Global Context -- Eastern Boundary Current Systems -- Western Boundary Currents -- Indian Ocean Margins -- Subpolar Margins -- Polar Margins -- Marginal Seas -- Tropical Margins -- Arising Issues and New Approaches -- Examining Human Impacts on Global Biogeochemical Cycling Via the Coastal Zone and Ocean Margins -- Biogeochemical Transformations of Silicon Along the Land–Ocean Continuum and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle1 -- Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) and Associated Nutrient Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean -- Coupled Circulation/Biogeochemical Models to Estimate Carbon Flux1 -- Cross-Boundary Fluxes and Global Synthesis -- Cross-Boundary Exchanges of Carbon and Nitrogen in Continental Margins1 -- Carbon–Nitrogen–Phosphorus Fluxes in the Coastal Zone: The LOICZ Approach to Global Assessment -- Sediment and Carbon Accumulation on Continental Shelves1 -- Global Synthesis1.

The book provides best estimates of carbon and nutrient fluxes in seven types of continental margins. In each type, these fluxes are reported in detail individually for 3-7 representative geographic regions, each of which is characterized by concise descriptions of the physical and biogeochemical settings. Drawn from the regional synthesis, a global synthesis is put together for carbon fluxes exchanged between continental margins as a whole and the atmosphere and between that and the open ocean. Global syntheses on sediments and nutrients discharged to the ocean from land are also provided in the book. To guide future research on continental margin biogeochemistry, the book also elaborates on a few critical themes that emerged in recent years. One of these is the human impact on the continental margin biogeochemistry, which accentuates the need to include human perturbation of the system in future research. Thus the book represents the state-of-the-art knowledge on the subject, which will be needed for all researchers on continental margin environmental issues.