Overview

The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations and demonstrates how general ecological principles--derived from terrestrial and freshwater systems as well--apply to marine ecosystems. Global warming and increased eutrophication and wetland destruction in recent years has made the study of ecological processes even more important for the preservation of marine environments. This thoroughly updated and expanded edition will provide students of marine ecology, marine biology, and oceanography with numerous illustrations, examples, and references which clearly impart to the reader the current state of research in thisfield: its achievements as well as unresolved controversies.

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Author:   Ivan Valiela
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 3rd ed. 2015
Weight:   1.464kg
ISBN:  

9781493979097

ISBN 10:   1493979094
Pages:   702
Publication Date:   14 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Primary producers in the sea.- Production: the formation of organic matter.- Factors affecting primary production.- Dynamics of Populations of Consumers.- Competition for Resources Among Consumers.- Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance.- Food Selection by Consumers.- Processing of Consumed.- Trophic Structure 1: Controls in Benthic Food Webs.- Trophic Structure 2: Components and Controls in Water Column Food Webs.- Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity.- Spatial Structure: Patchiness.- Development of Structure in Marine Communities: Colonization and Succession.- The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter.- Nutrient Cycles and Ecosystem Stoichiometry.- Seasonal Changes in Marine Ecosystems.- Long-Term and Large-Scale Change in Marine Ecosystems.

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Dr. Ivan Valiela serves as Senior Research Scientist for The Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory. His research includes analysis structure and controls on coastal ecosystems, land-sea couplings, impacts of urbanization and deforestation on coastal ecosystems, management of coastal environments, and international environmental policy.

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