Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

1. Front Matter

   Pages N2-XII

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2. Deposit Feeding and Coastal Oceanography

   • Jeffrey S. Levinton

   Pages 1-23

3. Examining Relationships Between Organic Carbon Flux and Deep-Sea Deposit Feeding

   • Robert S. Carney

   Pages 24-58

4. Early Diagenesis of Organic Matter and the Nutritional Value of Sediment

   • Donald L. Rice, Donald C. Rhoads

   Pages 59-97

5. The Nature and Determination of Non-Living Sedimentary Organic Matter as a Food Source for Deposit Feeders

   • Lawrence M. Mayer

   Pages 98-113

6. Digestion Theory Applied to Deposit Feeding

   • Peter A. Jumars, Deborah L. Penry

   Pages 114-128

7. Time-Dependent Absorption in Deposit Feeders

   • Lars Kofoed, Valery Forbes, Glenn Lopez

   Pages 129-148

8. Radiotracer Methods For Determining Utilization of Sedimentary Organic Matter by Deposit Feeders

   • Glenn Lopez, Pitiwong Tantichodok, I-Jiunn Cheng

   Pages 149-170

9. The Importance of Size-Dependent Processes in the Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Benthos

   • Thomas L. Forbes

   Pages 171-200

10. The Relationship Between Ingestion Rate of Deposit Feeders and Sediment Nutritional Value

    • Leon M. Cammen

    Pages 201-222

11. Modeling Deposit Feeding

    • Gary L. Taghon

    Pages 223-246

12. The Effects of Sediment Transport and Deposition on Infauna: Results Obtained in a Specially Designed Flume

    • Arthur R. M. Nowell, Peter A. Jumars, Robert F. L. Self, John B. Southard

    Pages 247-268

13. Small-Scale Features of Marine Sediments and Their Importance to the Study of Deposit Feeding

    • Les Watling

    Pages 269-290

14. On Some Mechanistic Approaches to the Study of Deposit Feeding In Polychaetes

    • Robert B. Whitlatch

    Pages 291-308

15. Some Ecological Perspectives in the Study of the Nutrition of Deposit Feeders

    • Kenneth R. Tenore

    Pages 309-317

16. Back Matter

    Pages 319-322

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Deposit feeders, animals that derive nutrition from organic matter in sedimentary deposits, are dominant among the inhabitants of muds and, therefore, of the benthos of much of the ocean. In this volume the critical research problems pertaining to deposit feeders are identified and promising approaches for dealing with those problems are proposed. Interdisciplinary approaches are of utmost importance in the study of deposit feeders and their sedimentary environment, merging fields as disparate as nutritional physiology and sediment geochemistry. Among the topics presented are advances in theories of foraging and digestion, and new experimental approaches to study the potential foods, feeding behavior and physiology of animals that ingest sediment.

• animals
• chemistry
• ecology
• environment
• fauna
• nutrition
• ocean
• oceanography
• physiology

• Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

  Glenn Lopez

• College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

  Gary Taghon

• Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

  Jeffrey Levinton

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