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classification of developmental patterns in benthic marine invertebrates: a discussion note.Journal of Experimental Marine Biolo ...

(Copepoda, Cyclopoida).Hydrobiologia, 453 , 525–531. Strathmann, R. R. & Strathmann, M. F. (1982). The relationship between ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN Body size and diversity in marine systems RICHARD M.WARWICK Plymouth Marine Laboratory Introduction Much has been ...

whether intrinsic local processes involving ecological mechanisms are more important (Cornell & Lawton,1992 ; Witman, Etter ...

For marine animals very little is known about the species numbers and body- size distributions of guilds of species that co-occu ...

meiofauna–macrofauna size spectrum, but these have confirmed the bimodal species size distribution, with many meiofaunal and man ...

Schwinghamer (1981 ) found a biomass trough at exactly the same body size as the species body-size trough (between 0.5 and 1mm e ...

‘Aschelminthes’ (Nematoda, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha) being considered the most primitive forms (Boaden,1989). These all have re ...

are able to coexist. Warwick (1989 ) went on to suggest that it had been ‘necessary’ for larger animals to evolve a planktonic l ...

diversity assemblage structure varied with the mesh sizes of the sieves used to extract the animals from the sediment. Within an ...

Pelagic assemblages For comparison with benthic species size distributions, Warwicket al.(1986) made a comprehensive collection ...

Polydora caeca Nerine foliosa Pygospio elegans Magelona papillicornis Lagis koreni Spiophanes bombyx Lanice conchilega Polydora ...

adult body-size distributions, and within the size range of adult pelagic animals (Fig.11.9). In these ‘enrichment communities’ ...

and that the species occurring in any particular location are a more or less random selection from that pool. This would account ...

this chapter was done as a contribution to the biodiversity element of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s core strategic research ...

Kochmer, J. P. & Wagner, R. H. (1988). Why are there so many kinds of passerine birds? Because they are small. A reply to Ra ...

Van den Brink, F.-H. (1967).Guide des mammife`res sauvages d’Europe. Neuchaˆtel: Delachaux et Niestle ́. Van Valen, L. (1973). B ...

CHAPTER TWELVE Interplay between individual growth and population feedbacks shapes body-size distributions LENNART PERSSON Umea^ ...

volume). Another example where body size is a key variable is in size spectra analyses of the organization of trophic dynamics a ...