Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lopez, Glenn. (Editor ), Taghon, Gary. (Editor ), Levinton, Jeffrey. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edición:1st ed. 1989.
Colección:Coastal and Estuarine Studies, 31
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7671-2
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Deposit Feeding and Coastal Oceanography
  • 2 Examining Relationships Between Organic Carbon Flux and Deep-Sea Deposit Feeding
  • 3 Early Diagenesis of Organic Matter and and the Nutritional Value of Sediment
  • 4 The Nature and Determination of Non-Living Sedimentary Organic Matter as a Food Source for Deposit Feeders
  • 5 Digestion Theory Applied to Deposit Feeding
  • 6 Time-Dependent Absorption in Deposit Feeders
  • 7 Radiotracer Methods for Determining Utilization of Sedimentary Organic Matter by Deposit Feeders
  • 8 The Lnportance of Size-Dependent Processes in the Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Benthos
  • 9 The Relationship Between Ingestion Rate of Deposit Feeders and Sediment Nutritional Value
  • 10 Modeling Deposit Feeding
  • 11 The Effects of Sediment Transport and Deposition on Infauna: Results Obtained in a Specially Designed Flume
  • 12 Small-Scale Features of Marine Sediments and Their Importance to the Study of Deposit Feeding
  • 13 On Some Mechanistic Approaches to the Study of Deposit Feeding in Polychaetes
  • 14 Some Ecological Perspectives in the Study of the Nutrition of Deposit Feeders.