Biological Oceanography

range of S is ∼40 in parts of the Red Sea. Unlike those conservative ions, others, like nitrate (NO 3 −), ...

(^) The covalent bonds of hydrogen to oxygen in water are labile enough that the oxygen side of on ...

Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, used it in denying that her thoughts were wandering (planktos). A classical ...

Table 1.2 Relatively low values of major nutrient concentration in surface waters compared to natural (as oppos ...

least a passage channel. Experimental data (Fig. 1.1) from Sunda and Huntsman (1997) show th ...

“blooms”, and also for harmful algal blooms. However, blooms generally do not develop at the ...

(^) Δρ = 0.0000044 g cm−3/atmosphere pressure, (^) and (again, for approximations) P increases 1 atmosphere for ea ...

that of upward mixing is not a simple set of measurements and is not yet accomplished. So-call ...

Atmospheric Gases also Dissolve in Seawater (^) Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide all dissolve in sea ...

quantifying oxygen concentration most often now are μmol kg−1 seawater; in an era not very long back ...

ions. The later activity releases sulfide, S−, which is toxic to other life-forms and readily de ...

through water by large, dense objects and to swimming forward by larger, faster animals. There ...

intermolecular attractions that must be spatially rearranged between sliding a tube (a flagellum, say) lengt ...

extremely fast relative speeds (hundreds of body lengths s−1). However, when power strokes are stopped, ...

damps turbulence in the flow. Away 0.5 to 1 cm, velocity increases more rapidly as inertial effects becom ...

by narrowing the boundary layer of each strand. Boundary layers are less extensive at greater relative v ...

make life on Earth possible. The coincidence of the solar spectrum to the window of water clarity allo ...

The effect of pigments is roughly proportional to chlorophyll concentration; chlorophyll will add abo ...

(^) A good deal of interest is expended in biological oceanography on bulk rates and quantities: th ...

organisms in obtaining the encounters they require generates some of our best insights. As Kiørbo ...