Biological Oceanography

successive animals encountered at random from an assemblage will belong to the same species: (^) where ...

Fig. 13.15 A species–area curve for benthic infauna from the Helgoland Bight of the Baltic Sea. The fitt ...

cores was taken over ∼108 km along the 2100 m isobath to evaluate the habitat in advance of possible o ...

Fig. 13.17 Continuous curve is mean species–area plot calculated from many successive orderings of 125 ...

(^) The high diversity of deep-sea sedimentary habitats was surprising, when discovered, because i ...

(^) The New England slope study also shows, however, that the downward increase in diversity does not e ...

Fig. 13.20 Diversity of isopod species collected with a sediment-skimming sledge along a continental shelf ...

(^) The question that rarefaction curves suggested to Sanders (1968), and which continues to fasci ...

few distinguishable resources, how can so many deep-sea species persist? (^) In some habitats, the answer is tak ...

different phases of a succession that recurs regionally, and generally with greater fidelity along isobaths. ...

animals with the habitat. It remains intriguing, and persists in being hard to understand full ...

Fig. 13.21 Deep-sea biogeographical regions characterized by distinctive benthic species assemblages defined primaril ...

to the New Jersey shelf) shows a range of patterns (Fig. 13.22) in every taxonomic group from generalis ...

Resources at the Seafloor “Raining” Particles (^) Because most of the seafloor is in continuous darkness, deep ...

(b) Design of the VERTEX trap and attachment to the mooring cable. (After Knauer et al. 1979.) The main flaws ar ...

appearing (e.g. Hernes 2001). Finally, for deep samples (>2 km), the swimmers are fewer and ...

versions with a carousel of cups changed by a stepping motor at suitable intervals (8.5 days, 21 ...

from his bathysphere in 1930. Marine snow has been a subject of intense study (e.g. Alldredge 1998; Kiørbo ...

(^) Lighter PIT technology with 3.5 cm diameter tubes (Fig. 13.23b) was used by the VERTEX studies in the ...

in the surface layer by ^14 C-uptake (data from Barber 1996, see Fig. 11.34) The effects of equatorial upwe ...