Concepts in Biological Oceanography: An Interdisciplinary Primer

by Peter A. Jumars

Overview

This textbook for advanced level courses in oceanography focuses on the interaction of ecological and physical processes that govern the ocean. The book begins with an introduction to ecology, using foraging theory and analytic formulation of encounter rates of predator and prey as organizing principles. Examples used are primarily marine to convey how marine systems differ from terrestrial environments. These differences, which carry through the remainder of the book, arise primarily through the ways in which deposit feeders process seafloor muds, suspension feeders extract particles from seawater, bacteria absorb solutes, and marine plants gather nutrients and light. The next section of the book is devoted to central issues of biological oceanography: controls of primary production, the role of bacteria, and questions of recruitment. The last part treats interdisciplinary topics as the arena in which the non-biological environmental scientist is most likely to find need for some biological background. The book is designed to introduce and develop concepts rather than to give extensive factual detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195067323
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	03/11/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.56(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

University of Washington

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
PART I: An Introduction to Ecological Principles
2. Individuals and Their Mass and Energy Balances
3. Encounter Rates and Functional Responses
4. Modes of Mass and Energy Acquisition by Individuals
5. Populations
6. Communities
7. Ecosystems and Alternative Perspectives
PART II: Central Issues in Biological Oceanography
8. Biological Structure in Space and Time
9. Magnitude and Time Variation of Primary, New, and Export Production
10. Microbial Loops
11. Recruitment
PART III: Interdisciplinary Topics Other Disciplines
12. Marine Optics
13. Physical Oceanography
14. Particle Dynamics in the Water Column
15. Sediment Transport and Bottom Boundary Layer Structure
16. Fouling and Biodeterioration
17. Stratigraphy
18. Diagenesis
19. Geophysics