Marine Ecological Processes

✍ Scribed by Ivan Valiela (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 704
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations and demonstrates how general ecological principles--derived from terrestrial and freshwater systems as well--apply to marine ecosystems.

Global warming and increased eutrophication and wetland destruction in recent years has made the study of ecological processes even more important for the preservation of marine environments. This thoroughly updated and expanded edition will provide students of marine ecology, marine biology, and oceanography with numerous illustrations, examples, and references which clearly impart to the reader the current state of research in this field: its achievements as well as unresolved controversies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Primary Producers in the Sea....Pages 3-34
Production: The Formation of Organic Matter....Pages 35-60
Controls of Primary Production....Pages 61-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-115
Population Dynamics in Consumers....Pages 117-141
Competition for Resources Among Consumers....Pages 143-169
Use and Transfer of Organic Matter in Marine Food Webs....Pages 171-195
Consumption of Food Particles: Mechanics of Grazing and Predation....Pages 197-224
Food Selection and Capture by Consumers....Pages 225-258
Processing and Uses of Consumed Energy....Pages 259-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-310
Food Web Structure and Its Controls I....Pages 311-355
Food Web Structure and Its Controls II....Pages 357-393
Taxonomic Structure: Species Composition....Pages 395-405
Spatial Structure: Patchiness....Pages 407-436
Temporal Structure: Perturbation, Colonization, Succession....Pages 437-465
Front Matter....Pages 467-468
The Carbon Cycle 1: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter Under Aerobic Conditions....Pages 469-504
The Carbon Cycle 2: Reactions Under Reducing Conditions....Pages 505-528
Nutrient Cycles in Ecosystems....Pages 529-576
Changing Marine Ecosystems and Processes: Trajectories and Recovery....Pages 577-593
Coda....Pages 595-597
Back Matter....Pages 599-698

✦ Subjects

Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Water, general; Community & Population Ecology; Zoology; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Applied Ecology