Biological Oceanography

(^) Although widely used, the Smith–Mac and its relatives (Petersen, van Veen, Okean, Campbell, etc., grabs) ...

expedition, say yes. Megafauna – Largest Denizens of the Deep (^) Swimming along the deep-sea bottom and somet ...

& Tyler 1991; with permission of Cambridge University Press.) Fig. 13.5 Benthic megafauna photographed ...

(^) Echinoderms have varied diets and feeding modes. Ophiuroids range over the bottom – selecting det ...

star patterns (called lick marks) up to a meter in diameter, and depositing their wastes at the bott ...

Macrofauna – Sieve Pickings (^) Composition of deep-sea macrofauna is characterized according to major zoolog ...

*Data for the northwest Atlantic come from anchor dredge samples on the Gay Head–Bermuda transect (Sanders ...

peristomium. Guts of the deep-sea Chaetozone and Tharyx were filled with sediment. Capitella (Fig. 13.7b) ...

Rarer on average, but in places abundant, are an array of polychaetes that live in tubes: Ampharetidae ...

posterior end of the tube is buried vertically, and the anterior end tips down across the sediment. The worm ...

plates on the female’s thoracic legs called oostegites. Amphipods are the dominant benthic crustaceans in fr ...

Fig. 13.9 Composition by major groups among (a) crustacea, and (b) pelecypoda in benthic samples collected from ...

filtering particles from water above the sediment. At greater depths, eulamellibranchs are progressively replace ...

depths to function. At least some forms that can be cultured do revive and grow (slowly) when ...

back, then advance in muds. In rough order of numerical abundance among meiofaunal groups (although ...

(^) Foraminifera (“forams”) are amoeba-like protists, moving and feeding by extension of cytoplasmic strands (pseudopod ...

multinucleate cells covered with particles. Some are tangles of mineral-covered tubes spread across the sediment ...

composition at the redox interface. The deeper community, dominated by nematodes, is referred to as the “thi ...

Trend lines drawn freehand by us. (^) (After Rowe 1983.) Both greater numbers and greater biomass are found n ...

continental shelf and slope topography with interacting circulation patterns of South Atlantic Bight, Mid-Atlant ...