Overview
- Editors:
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Francesco Maria Faranda
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Istituto di Scienze Ambientali Marine, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
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Letterio Guglielmo
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Dipartimento di Biologia ed Ecologia Marina, Università di Messina, Messina-S. Agata, Italy
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GianCarlo Spezie
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Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia, Istituto Universitario Navale, Napoli, Italy
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Table of contents (61 chapters)
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Sediment Processes and Material Recycling
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- P. Del Negro, G. Civitarese, P. Ramani, S. Fonda Umani
Pages 477-484
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- R. La Ferla, R. Zaccone, G. Caruso, M. Azzaro
Pages 485-493
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Back Matter
Pages 495-503
About this book
This new book, as described in the Preface, presents a collection of contributions by several participants of the First National Congress of Marine Sciences organ ized by the CoNISMa. The 62 selected papers, grouped into seven sections, deal with a number of significant and current topics of marine research conducted at Mediterranean stations mostly situated along the Italian coast. The focus of each section is clearly expressed in the headings. The research sites may be conceived as "key" or focal points in the study of marine ecosystems. Indeed. the information collected transcends regional inter ests by promoting better understanding of the structures and processes charac terizing a wide area of the Mediterranean basin. The reader may easily note that in the entire book special attention is devoted to the observed changes and the ensuing diversity in time and space. Temporal diversity ranges from paleontological scales to shorter time scales. The latter is the case, for instance, with chemical species, circulation patterns, energy fluxes linking particulate matter with microbial communities, structure of food webs, bacterial, plant and animal species, etc. As to the disciplinary aspects, the majority of papers reflect a modern approach, in both conceptual and methodological terms, and a marked tendency to overcome the boundaries of specific disciplines. This applies particularly to the evaluation of intraspecific biodiversity, where methods borrowed from mo lecular biology are largely utilized.
Editors and Affiliations
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Istituto di Scienze Ambientali Marine, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
Francesco Maria Faranda
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Dipartimento di Biologia ed Ecologia Marina, Università di Messina, Messina-S. Agata, Italy
Letterio Guglielmo
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Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia, Istituto Universitario Navale, Napoli, Italy
GianCarlo Spezie