Biological Oceanography
2. Auflage April 2012
480 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
Greatly updated and expanded, this new edition of Biological Oceanography presents a current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other. Throughout, the book has been revised to account for recent advances in this rapidly changing field with a new chapter added reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs. Essential reading for senior undergraduate and graduate students of ocean ecology and professional marine ecologists.
This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other.
The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. The chapter on oceanic biomes has been greatly expanded and a new chapter reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs has been added. Throughout, the book has been revised to account for recent advances in this rapidly changing field. The increased importance of molecular genetic data across the field is evident in most of the chapters.
As with the previous edition, the book is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students of ocean ecology and professional marine ecologists.
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Acknowledgements
1. Ocean ecology: some fundamental aspects
2. The phycology of phytoplankton
3. Habitat determinants of primary production in the sea
4. Numerical models: the standard form of theory in pelagic ecology
5. A sea of microbes: archaea, bacteria, protists, and viruses in the marine pelagial
6. The zoology of zooplankton
7. Production ecology of marine zooplankton
8. Population biology of zooplankton
9. Pelagic food webs
10. Biogeography of pelagic habitats
11. Biome and province analysis of the oceans
12. Adaptive complexes of meso- and bathypelagic organisms
13. The fauna of deep-sea sediments
14. Some benthic community ecology
15. Submarine hydrothermal vents
16. Ocean ecology and global climate change
17. Fisheries oceanography
References
Index
Patricia Wheeler, now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, taught biological oceanography and phytoplankton physiology there for many years. Her research contributions address phytoplankton nutrient dynamics and include work on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen. She conducted field work in the Equatorial Pacific, the northern California Current system and the Arctic Ocean.
