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Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Glenn Lopez

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

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  2. Gary Taghon

    1. College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

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  3. Jeffrey Levinton

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

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Part of the book series: Coastal and Estuarine Studies (COASTAL, volume 31)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

  • Editors: Glenn Lopez, Gary Taghon, Jeffrey Levinton

  • Series Title: Coastal and Estuarine Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7671-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97001-1Published: 22 May 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-7671-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0724-5890

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 322

  • Topics: Ecology, Zoology

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