Biological Oceanography

While most of the flux in oceanic areas is of biological origin, most of it is not organic matter as such ...

Wakeham and Lee (1993; Fig. 13.27) assembled the scattered data from trapping studies in oligotrophic areas, ...

Repeating for emphasis: (i) more organic matter leaves the euphotic zone when the euphotic zone is mor ...

among the bones and can remain intact for several years. For example, a blue- or fin- whale carcass discovered ...

uptake) integrated to 150 m. Middle: short-term estimates of mass flux at three depths from traps drifting ...

planktotrophic larvae – larvae that must feed in the water column to later metamorphose into deep ...

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Chapter 14 Some benthic community ecology Ecologists use the term community to refer to the suite of organisms ...

(^) In benthic ecology, the term community analysis is applied to several rather specific approaches to evalua ...

intrudes around Point Barrow from the Bering Strait area, carrying phytoplankton from the rich produ ...

Fig. 14.3 Ordering of dominant polychaete species found in Beaufort Sea sediments according to depth ra ...

The ordering, shown for dominant species, is from the narrowest shallow range, through the most inclusive r ...

seem surprising, but there it is. Next, he began a comparison of the stations on the basis of their resi ...

(^) Then Bilyard analyzed the species-by-station table using clustering and ordination techniques. These are ...

this removes a small amount of the overall separation among stations, then the pairing is given a high ...

(^) The result looks like the species numbers map (Fig. 14.4). That is, the contour of 60 species that appears i ...

subject of further research. Box 14.1 Ordination Techniques, with the Math in Words (^) Ordinations apply a spati ...

just at one station, B the number just at the other, and C the number at both, then J = C/(A + ...

(^) It has been decades since this excellent project was completed, and many of the questions that it rais ...

hypotheses. In benthic ecology, the same hypotheses recur: assemblages of animals change progressively with dept ...