Biological Oceanography

relationship between organic-matter density and cell volume in bacteria (Fig. 5.7) such that the ...

(2000) and others, the overall production rate is roughly set by the trophic richness of the system. Thus, TdR-uptak ...

used to study biomass increase. The most common incubation substrate for this purpose is [^3 H]-leu ...

Cottrell and Kirchman (2000) found that, in the Delaware Bay estuary, no one group dominated the consumptio ...

nd, no data. Food-chain Transfer via Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) (^) If bacterial production is 10–25% of pr ...

(^) Thirteen percent of primary production (on average) is not enough DOM generation to cover bacterial producti ...

(^) DOM and DOC must be defined operationally, which turns out to be simply the organic matter (or ...

organic nitrogen (DON) ranges from 3.5 to 7 μmol liter−1. Identified components include amino acids ...

sea, are the heterotrophic nanoflagellates (“HNAN”), ranging from 2 to 20 μm in cell size. Most are “hetero ...

Protist control of bacterial stocks is implied by time-series data from a fjord (Fig. 5.10) (Anderson & ...

predators, but also grazers, so apparent growth increases again, and that effect is even stronger with ...

Viruses, Viral Lysis of Bacteria, and the Viral Shunt (^) The ocean not only contains ∼ 106 bacteria per ml, ...

labeled bacterial DNA with protists present and with protists removed, attributing the difference to viral ...

Microscopic analyses (TEM, Weinbauer et al. 2002) suggest that 2–24% of bacterial cells are inf ...

shown experimentally, just predicted from model results. Fig. 5.14 Diagram illustrating “kill the winner” ...

be mineralized to ammonium. Poorvin et al. (2004) have shown that virally induced mortality in coastal waters ...

Chapter 6 The zoology of zooplankton For some practititioners of biological oceanography, zooplankton are simply “Z”, ...

square, measured by the length along their sides. For larger zooplankton (euphausiids, adult copepods) 200 or 33 ...

the net was towed forward by a ship, while wire was paid out and retrieved with a winch. (c) A 1 m^2 ...

enthusiasts since William Hamner (1974) and colleagues initiated studies by blue- water diving in the ...