Marine Ecological Processes

Name: Marine Ecological Processes
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ISBN: 9780387943213

ISBN-10: 0387943218

ISBN-13: 9780387943213

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Ivan Valiela

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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--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…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 8/10/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 696
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Ivan Valiela has been teaching and doing research since 1969 in Woods Hole at the Boston University Marine Program, Marine Biological Laboratory. He has published over 200 articles on many basic and applied features of coastal environments, and has written Marine Ecological Processes, well-known as a standard text in marine ecology, and Doing Science, a guide to the design, analysis, and communication of scientific research.



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition



Producers and Processes Involved in Primary Production



Factors Affecting Primary Production



Dynamics of Populations of Consumers



Competition for Resources Among Consumers



Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance



Food Selection by Consumers



Processing of Consumed Energy



Trophic Structure 1: Controls in Benthic Food Webs



Trophic Structure 2: Components and Controls in Water Column Food Webs



Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity



Spatial Structure: Patchiness



Development of Structure in Marine Communities: Colonization and Succession



The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter



Nutrient Cycles and Ecosystem Stoichiometry



Seasonal Changes in Marine Ecosystems



Long-Term and Large-Scale Change in Marine Ecosystems


References


Index