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This book, Marine ecology Biodiversity and Conservation describes how systems biology has been applied to advance knowledge of the stress response in these important marine ecosystems to climatic and anthropogenic perturbations. This knowledge is linked to mechanisms of resilience and persistence under varying environmental scenarios, which have important implications for the conservation and management of these ecosystems.Systems biology integrates data from various disciplines, such as physiology, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, into numerical models to simulate the physiology of a whole organism. It not only analyzes the topology of biochemical and signaling networks in response to stress but also captures the dynamics of these responses. Systems biology has been used extensively to study terrestrial vegetation and its ecological adaptation to future climate change scenarios, but to a lesser extent in the study of marine organisms.