Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
1989.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989. |
| Series: | Coastal and Estuarine Studies,
31 |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7671-2 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.