Biological Oceanography

added to sediment in a basin off southern California. There is a slight tendency for smaller particles ...

In recent years, complex models of bioturbation rates and depths have been developed, star turns w ...

climatic history. Its effect is that the record of depositional events is smeared in time, losing resolution ...

upright animal tubes or slender sea pens generate local turbulence close to the sediment and thus ...

Measurement (^) Sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC) has been extensively studied as a measure of the metabo ...

(^) Profiles from oxygen electrodes (Fig. 14.20) and optodes match the deep water column [O 2 ] w ...

reduce instrument noise). Results for an estuarine deployment (Fig. 14.24) show correlation of quite la ...

penetration (Fig. 14.25b, from electrode profiles). Where less organic matter is supplied to the sediment ...

(^) Wenzhöfer and Glud (2002) have compared DOU between areas of high surface production (e.g. the West ...

50 mab (Fig. 14.27a & b) showed strong seasonal cycling. The POC time sequences at the two depth ...

Table 14.2 Annual totals of POC flux compared to sediment oxygen consumption (SCOC, converted to units ...

chlorophyll (Chl) and temperature (T) time-series were run though a net production algorithm, and a multiple regre ...

finally sequestered below the bioturbation limit near the continental margin. This “burial effic ...

the community composition and discernible shifts in composition. The pictures reveal that 10 invariant species, ...

Fig. 14.29 Histogram bars: time-series estimates of particulate organic-carbon flux from traps at 3000 m ...

“Amperima Event” was over. The high POC flux of 2001 suggests that both events were likely to be d ...

does not really concern us here. The pun, while fun, has no significance for Fauchald and Jumar’s paper. ...

Chapter 15 Submarine hydrothermal vents Studies in the early 1970s by J. (Jack) B. Corliss (1973) suggested t ...

submersible support ship R/V Lulu to make a number of dives in the submersible Alvin to the crest of the ...

flow or violent jets. Subsequent expeditions somewhat farther north along the East Pacific Rise found ventin ...