Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Some Comments on Plankton Patches

   • John H. Steele

   Pages 1-20

3. Horizontal Dispersion and Critical Scales for Phytoplankton Patches

   • Akira Okubo

   Pages 21-42

4. Vertical Processes and the Vertical-Horizontal Coupling

   • G. E. B. Kullenberg

   Pages 43-71

5. Spectral Analysis of Spatial Structure in Phytoplankton Populations

   • Trevor Platt

   Pages 73-84

6. Collection and Analysis of Underway Data and Related Physical Measurements

   • Kenneth L. Denman, David L. Mackas

   Pages 85-109

7. The Application of Particle Counting to an Understanding of the Small-Scale Distribution of Plankton

   • P. R. Pugh

   Pages 111-129

8. The Application of Some Stochastic Processes to the Study of Plankton Patchiness

   • M. J. R. Fasham

   Pages 131-156

9. Biological Effects of Vertical-Horizontal Interactions

   • Geoffrey T. Evans

   Pages 157-179

10. Mixing and Stabilization of Phytoplankton Distributions on the Northwest European Continental Shelf

    • R. D. Pingree

    Pages 181-220

11. Patchiness in Subsurface Phytoplankton Populations on the Northwest European Continental Shelf

    • P. M. Holligan

    Pages 221-238

12. Spatial Heterogeneity in Closed Basins

    • Peter J. Richerson, Thomas M. Powell, Mark R. Leigh-Abbott, John A. Coil

    Pages 239-276

13. Patterns and Processes in the Time-Space Scales of Plankton Distributions

    • L. R. Haury, J. A. McGowan, P. H. Wiebe

    Pages 277-327

14. Growth and Survival of First-Feeding Northern Anchovy Larvae (Engraulis mordax) in Patches Containing Different Proportions of Large and Small Prey

    • Reuben Lasker, James R. Zweifel

    Pages 329-354

15. Spatial Distributions and Ecology of Pelagic Fish

    • J. W. Horwood, D. H. Cushing

    Pages 355-383

16. Patches, Movements, and Population Dynamics in Ecological Systems: A Terrestrial Perspective

    • William C. Clark, Dixon D. Jones, C. S. Holling

    Pages 385-432

17. Pattern Formation in Ecological Communities

    • Simon A. Levin

    Pages 433-465

18. Back Matter

    Pages 467-470

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The planning for the conference held at Erice, Sicily, in November 1977, began with discussions among oceanographers from several countries on the need to consider the special problems and the recent results in the study of plankton "patchiness. " An approach to the Marine Sciences Panel of the NATO Science Committee resulted in a planning grant to determine the probable content and participation in such a meeting. The planning group consisted of B. Battaglia (Padua), G. E. B. Kullenberg (Copenhagen), A. Okubo (New York), T. Platt (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and J. H. Steele (Aberdeen). The group met in Aberdeen, Scotland, in September 1976. The proposal for a NATO School on the subject of "Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities" was accepted by the Marine Science Panel and it was agreed that it be held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice. The Centre began in 1963 with an International School of Subnuclear Physics and has since developed to include courses in many other subjects which cover various fields of basic and applied research. The original aim of the . Centre was to create, in Italy, a cultural forum of high scientific standard which would allow young research workers to appreciate problems currently of major interest in various fields of research.

• fields
• nuclear physics
• physics
• plankton

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

  John H. Steele

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