Biological Oceanography

proportional to the area occupied by a given depth in the world’s oceans. For example, depths in the abyssal ...

0 1 1 1 10 2 2 100 4 3 1,000 8 4 10,000 16 5 100,000 32 (^) However, when the term “exponential function” is invo ...

differential equations, and their solutions when they have simple ones are always functions, suc ...

equation, often used to characterize the increase of a population up to the limiting carrying capacity ...

as the Monod function); and 3 the Ivlev equation. Fig. 1.7 Growth rate of the diatom Asterionella japoni ...

(^) where c is a proportionality constant. The maximal rate, V max, will be attained when [ES] = [E], ...

induce “negative” ingestion, nutrient uptake, ... , all of which have unrealistic stabilizing effects ...

concentration measures in several years (different symbols) at 59°N, 19°W in the Norwegian Sea compared ...

results from molecular genetics that have revised the understanding of phylogenetic relationships and, thu ...

Chapter 2 The phycology of phytoplankton Phytoplankon are the assemblage of photoautotrophic microorganisms making ...

ocean ecologist caps and put on marine lab T-shirts to masquerade as marine biologists. We’ll do ...

(^) Waterbury et al. and Johnson and Sieburth both reported in 1979 that very large numbers of photosynth ...

Box 2.2 Epifluorescence microscopy (^) Biologists, including biological oceanographers, have found increasing use for m ...

by filtering cells on to a black membrane filter. Often they are fixed first with an aldehyde (e.g ...

from an early, intracellular symbiosis of cyanobacterial cells in the macrophytes (Plate 2.1). (^) One genus of ...

molecular variant of chlorophyll, chlorophyll-b. Prochlorophytes were originally discovered as algal symb ...

Box Fig. 2.3.2 Scatter plots of fluorescence vs. forward light scatter. (^) (After Olson et al. 1990.) Prochlor ...

in the ocean. They form three ecological groups with widespread importance in the ocean: high-light-adapted ...

of four, small distinctive compounds, nucleotides (or “bases”): thymine (T), adenine (A), guanine (G), and cyto ...

sequences have been particularly useful in identifying microbial relationships and very old phyloge ...