Marine Ecological Processes

✍ Scribed by Ivan Valiela (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 689
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader - particularly the graduate student - 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. Numerous illustrations, examples, and references 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-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Producers and Processes Involved in Primary Production....Pages 3-35
Factors Affecting Primary Production....Pages 36-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Dynamics of Populations of Consumers....Pages 87-105
Competition for Resources Among Consumers....Pages 107-131
Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance....Pages 133-163
Food Selection by Consumers....Pages 165-201
Processing of Consumed Energy....Pages 203-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Trophic Structure 1: Controls in Benthic Food Webs....Pages 247-274
Trophic Structure 2: Components and Controls in Water Column Food Webs....Pages 275-304
Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity....Pages 305-324
Spatial Structure: Patchiness....Pages 325-353
Development of Structure in Marine Communities: Colonization and Succession....Pages 355-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter....Pages 385-424
Nutrient Cycles and Ecosystem Stoichiometry....Pages 425-466
Seasonal Changes in Marine Ecosystems....Pages 467-497
Long-Term and Large-Scale Change in Marine Ecosystems....Pages 499-544
Back Matter....Pages 545-686

✦ Subjects

Ecology; Ecosystems; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Zoology