Biological Oceanography

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(^) Bacterivores, protist consumers of bacteria
(^) Viruses, viral lysis of bacteria, and the viral shunt
(^) Herbivorous microzooplankton


Chapter 6 The zoology of zooplankton


(^) Collection
(^) An introductory description of the forms of planktonic animals
(^) Aesthetics


Chapter 7 Production ecology of marine zooplankton


(^) Feeding mechanics
(^) Feeding rates and factors affecting them
(^) Evaluation of mesozooplankton production


Chapter 8 Population biology of zooplankton


(^) Reproductive biology and fecundity
(^) Mortality rates and age distribution of mortality
(^) Causes of mortality
(^) Life-history variations
(^) Diel vertical migration


Chapter 9 Pelagic food webs


(^) Approaches to what animals eat
(^) Lower-level trophic transfers in the sea
(^) Top-down cascades
(^) Marine food-web modeling: Ecopath and Ecosim


Chapter 10 Biogeography of pelagic habitats


(^) What is a “species”?
(^) Global patterns

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