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Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle

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Editors:
  1. Gilbert T. Rowe

    1. Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  2. Vita Pariente

    1. Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 360)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Bacterial Standing Stock and Consumption of Organic Carbon in The Benthic Boundary Layer of The Abyssal North Atlantic

    • K. Lochte
    Pages 1-10

  3. Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Deep-Sea Sediments: Towards a Global View

    • J. W. Deming, P. L. Yager
    Pages 11-27

  4. The Role of Deep-Sea Zooplankton in Carbon Cycles

    • Karen F. Wishner, Marcia M. Gowing
    Pages 29-43

  5. Abundance and Biomass of Metazoan Meiobenthos in The Deep Sea

    • John H. Tietjen
    Pages 45-62

  6. The Role of Benthic Foraminifera in Deep-Sea Food Webs and Carbon Cycling

    • Andrew J. Gooday, Lisa A. Levin, Peter Linke, Thomas Heeger
    Pages 63-91

  7. Possible Roles for Xenophyophores in Deep-Sea Carbon Cycling

    • L. A. Levin, A. J. Gooday
    Pages 93-104

  8. Foraging of Scavenging Deep-Sea Lysianassoid Amphipods

    • B. Sainte-Marie
    Pages 105-124

  9. Deep-Sea Epibenthic Megafauna of the Northeast Atlantic: Abundance and Biomass at Three Mid-Oceanic Locations Estimated From Photographic Transects

    • B. Christiansen, H. Thiel
    Pages 125-138

  10. South Aegean (Eastern Mediterranean) Continental Slope Benthos: Macroinfaunal — Environmental Relationships

    • A. Tselepides, A. Eleftheriou
    Pages 139-156

  11. Production/Biomass Ratios, Size Frequencies and Biomass Spectra in Deep-Sea Demersal Fishes

    • Richard L. Haedrich, Nigel R. Merrett
    Pages 157-182

  12. Organic Carbon Flux Through the Benthic Community in the Temperate Abyssal Northeast Atlantic

    • O. Pfannkuche
    Pages 183-198

  13. Benthic Secondary Production in the Deep Sea

    • J. D. Gage
    Pages 199-216

  14. Metabolic Potential of Deep-Sea Animals: Regional and Global Scales

    • J. J. Childress, E. V. Thuesen
    Pages 217-236

  15. Adenosine Nucleotides as Indicators of Deep-Sea Benthic Metabolism

    • G. Graf, P. Linke
    Pages 237-243

  16. Effects of Spatial and Temporal Scale on the Relationship of Surface Pigment Biomass to Community Structure in the Deep-Sea Benthos

    • M. Campbell Watts, Ron J. Etter, Michael A. Rex
    Pages 245-254

  17. Benthic Food Web Flows in the Santa Monica Basin Estimated Using Inverse Methodology

    • Peter M. Eldridge, George A. Jackson
    Pages 255-276

  18. Predicting Community Dynamics from Food Web Structure

    • Manuel C. Gomes, Richard L. Haedrich
    Pages 277-293

  19. The Spatial Distribution of Sea Floor Oxygen Consumption in The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

    • Richard A. Jahnke, George A. Jackson
    Pages 295-307

  20. Using Monod Kinetics in Geochemical Models of Organic Carbon Mineralization in Deep-Sea Surficial Sediments

    • J.-F. Gaillard, C. Rabouille
    Pages 309-324
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About this book

Carbon dioxide and other `greenhouse' gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, the destruction of rain forests, etc., leading to predictions of a gradual global warming which will perturb the global biosphere. An important process which counters this trend toward potential climate change is the removal of carbon dioxide from the surface ocean by photosynthesis. This process packages carbon in phytoplankton which enter the food chain or sink into the deep sea. Their ultimate fate is a `rain' of organic debris out of the surface-mixed layer of the ocean. On a global scale, the mechanisms and overall rate of this process are poorly known.
The authors of the 25 papers in this volume present their state-of-the-art approaches to quantifying the mechanisms by which the `rain' of biogenic debris nourishes deep ocean life.
Prominent deep sea ecologists, geochemists and modelers address relationships between data and models of carbon fluxes and food chains in the deep ocean. An attempt is made to estimate the fate of carbon in the deep sea on a global scale by summing up the utilization of organic matter among all the populations of the abyssal biosphere. Comparisons are made between these ecological approaches and estimates of geochemical fluxes based on sediment trapping, one-dimensional geochemical models and horizontal (physical) input from continental margins.
Planning interdisciplinary enterprises between geochemists and ecologists, including new field programs, are summarized in the final chapter. The summary includes a list of the important gaps in understanding which must be addressed before the role of the deep-sea biota in global-scale processes can be put in perspective.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Gilbert T. Rowe, Vita Pariente

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle

  • Editors: Gilbert T. Rowe, Vita Pariente

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2452-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1608-4Published: 31 January 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5082-1Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2452-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 400

  • Topics: Geochemistry, Evolutionary Biology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Oceanography

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