Marine Ecological Processes

• Main Author: Valiela, Ivan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Water.; Applied ecology.; Aquatic ecology.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Zoology.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Water, general.; Community & Population Ecology.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Applied Ecology.

This book includes a comprehensive review of the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations, as well as introduces concepts, approaches, and methods in the fast-changing fields of marine ecology and oceanography. This third edition maintains the structure of previous editi...

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.