Biological oceanography (2nd Ed.) paper

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.

Preface to the second edition

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

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Index