Charles B. Miller, Patricia A. Wheeler

Biological Oceanography (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other. The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. The chapter on oceanic biomes has been greatly expanded and a new chapter reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs has been added. Throughout, the book has been revised to account for recent advances in this rapidly changing field. The increased importance of molecular genetic data across the field is evident in most of the chapters. As with the previous edition, the book is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students of ocean ecology and professional marine ecologists. Visit www.wiley.com/go/miller/oceanography to access the artwork from the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118223178
• Artikelnr.: 37872336

Autorenporträt

Charlie Miller, now Emeritus Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University, taught biological oceanography and zooplankton biology for many years. His research contributions have concentrated on seasonal processes in the ecology of marine zooplankton, particularly copepods, in the Oregon coastal zone and estuaries, the Gulf of Alaska, Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine. Patricia Wheeler, now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, taught biological oceanography and phytoplankton physiology there for many years. Her research contributions address phytoplankton nutrient dynamics and include work on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen. She conducted field work in the Equatorial Pacific, the northern California Current system and the Arctic Ocean.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1. Ocean ecology: some
fundamental aspects 2. The phycology of phytoplankton 3. Habitat
determinants of primary production in the sea 4. Numerical models: the
standard form of theory in pelagic ecology 5. A sea of microbes: archaea,
bacteria, protists, and viruses in the marine pelagial 6. The zoology of
zooplankton 7. Production ecology of marine zooplankton 8. Population
biology of zooplankton 9. Pelagic food webs 10. Biogeography of pelagic
habitats 11. Biome and province analysis of the oceans 12. Adaptive
complexes of meso- and bathypelagic organisms 13. The fauna of deep-sea
sediments 14. Some benthic community ecology 15. Submarine hydrothermal
vents 16. Ocean ecology and global climate change 17. Fisheries
oceanography References Index