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Marine Ecological Processes

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. Ivan Valiela

    1. Marine Biological Laboratory, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, USA
      Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Advanced Texts in Life Sciences (SATLIFE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Primary Producers in Marine Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Producers and Processes Involved in Primary Production

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      Pages 3-37

    3. Factors Affecting Primary Production

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      Pages 38-76

  3. Consumers in Marine Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-78
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    2. Dynamics of Populations of Consumers

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      Pages 79-94

    3. Competition for Resources Among Consumers

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      Pages 95-118

    4. Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance

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      Pages 119-146

    5. Food Selection by Consumers

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      Pages 147-176

    6. Processing of Consumed Energy

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      Pages 177-218

  4. Interaction of Producers and Consumers: Competition and Consumption

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-220
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    2. The Consequences of Competition Among Producers and Consumption by Herbivores

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      Pages 221-243

    3. The Consequences of Competition Among Prey and Consumption by Predators

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      Pages 244-269

  5. Organic Matter, Decomposition, and Nutrient Cycles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-272
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    2. Transformations of Organic Matter: The Carbon Cycle

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      Pages 273-311

    3. Nutrient Cycles: Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Sulfur

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      Pages 312-341

  6. Structure of Marine Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 343-344
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    2. Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity

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      Pages 345-364

    3. Spatial Heterogeneity: Structure Over Space

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      Pages 365-383

    4. The Structure of Marine Communities Over Time: Long and Short-Term Changes

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      Pages 384-413
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About this book

This text is aimed principally at the beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate student, but was written also to serve as a review and, more ambitiously, as a synthesis of the field. To achieve these purposes, several objectives were imposed on the writing. The first was, since ecol­ ogists must be the master borrowers of biology, to give the flavor of the eclectic nature of the field by providing coverage of many of the interdis­ ciplinary topics relevant to marine ecology. The second objective was to portray marine ecology as a discipline in the course of discovery, one in which there are very few settled issues. In many instances it is only possible to discuss diverse views and point out the need for further study. The lack of clear conclusions may be frustrating to the beginning student but nonetheless reflects the current-and necessarily exciting-state of the discipline. The third purpose is to guide the reader further into topics of specialized interest by providing sufficient recent references­ especially reviews. The fourth objective is to present marine ecology for what it is: a branch of ecology. Many concepts, approaches, and methods of marine ecology are inspired or derived from terrestrial and limnological antecedents. There are, in addition, instructive comparisons to be made among results obtained from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environ­ ments, I have therefore incorporated the intellectual antecedents of par­ ticular concepts and some non-marine comparisons into the text.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Marine Biological Laboratory, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, USA

    Ivan Valiela

  • Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, USA

    Ivan Valiela

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marine Ecological Processes

  • Authors: Ivan Valiela

  • Series Title: Springer Advanced Texts in Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1833-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-1833-1Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-6226

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 547

  • Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ecology, Zoology

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