Biological Oceanography

Plexiglass® dome placed with a submersible over the clam bed; again, sperm were produced first, then ...

distinction is not very strongly correlated with the degree of genetic variation along the ranges of these an ...

Hydrothermal venting was already active through fissures in the new lava, and particulate mat ...

estimates for various metabolic enzymes and DNA sequence variation. Isozymes are variant forms of enzymes whi ...

formation of “protocells” from the proteinoids. The first step was achieved in the gas phase by passing ...

persisted as one of the potential candidates for the initial steps in assembling beings using energy from simpl ...

Chapter 16 Ocean ecology and global climate change The phrase “global climate change” has long since become a mant ...

and other climatic effects of warming. Concern is complicated by our recently strengthened realiz ...

from 1998) to 2008 (Fig. 16.2; Lyman et al. 2010). Other strong temperature oscillations have occ ...

The most likely explanation of the recent acceleration of warming is the increasing accumulation in the atmo ...

(^) The absorbing gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide (which absorbs IR in the 12 to 17 μm band centered ...

of IR by CO 2 allows the warmer atmosphere to retain more water vapor, which is a more-abundant IR absor ...

it. The focus on CO 2 , here and in the worldwide discussion, is because it has one of the longer atmospheric ...

Fig. 16.6 Annual increments to atmospheric CO 2 calculated from the annual average data for Fig. 16.4. (^ ...

(for a time at least) by terrestrial plants, particularly trees. The air–ocean–land partition of ...

the left are measured, ΔO 2 from Δ(O 2 /N 2 ) by assuming N 2 is nearly fixed (with approximation for r ...

Thus, the ocean has a major part in modifying the impact of fuel use on the atmospheric CO ...

the wood faster than they regenerate. The annual net terrestrial storage of carbon only applies to the global ave ...

the atmosphere at lower rates (in the global total) set by the concentrations established at depth over the whol ...

The air–sea CO 2 -flux map (Plate 16.1) also shows this biological carbon transfer into the sea. Much inf ...