Phytoplankton Ecology Structure, Function and Fluctuation /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1986.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1986. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3165-7 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Preamble
- 1.1 A brief introduction to the organisms
- 2 Ecological theory
- 2.1 An historical perspective: the concept of plenitude
- 2.2 Ecology and evolution
- 2.3 Equilibrium theory
- 2.4 The equilibrium theory of community structure
- 2.5 Criticisms of equilibrium theory
- 2.6 Non-equilibrium theory
- 2.7 Some ideas from non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- 3 Some basic physics
- 3.1 Scales of turbulent kinetic energy generation
- 3.2 The physics of surface waters
- 4 The chemical environment
- 4.1 The Redfield ratio
- 4.2 The major ions
- 4.3 The major nutrients
- 5 Defining the scales of interest
- 5.1 Patchiness in space and time
- 5.1.1 Vertical mixing and sedimentation
- 5.1.2 Horizontal mixing
- 5.1.3 Spectra of turbulent kinetic energy
- 5.1.4 Spectra of chemical fluctuations
- 5.2 The biological response to variability in space and time
- 5.2.1 Physiological scales
- 5.2.2 The scales of growth rates
- 5.3 Models of competition between phytoplankton
- 6 The measurement of productivity and growth rates
- 6.1 The interpretation of kinetic measurements
- 6.2 The integration of metabolic pathways
- Time scales and the effects of bottle containment
- From kinetics to growth rates?
- 7 The concept of limiting nutrients
- 7.1 Rate processes in oligotrophic waters
- 7.2 The cycling of N and P in lakes and the oceans
- 7.3 Nutrient cycling, elemental ratios and the ‘Redfield ratio’
- 7.4 Patterns in temporal fluctuations
- 7.5 Whole basin averages
- 8 Physiological scales: non-steady state conditions in the field
- 8.1 The effects of environmental variability on growth rates
- 8.1.1 Diversification between species
- 8.2 Energy, nutrients and cell size: a synthesis
- 9 Seasonal patterns of distribution and abundance
- 9.1 Spatial distribution of biomass
- 9.2 The seasonal cycle of phytoplankton growth
- 9.3 Manipulation of the seasonal cycle of biomass
- 9.4 The influence of mixed layer physics on biomass distributions
- 9.5 Ecological succession
- 9.6 The seasonal succession and community structure of phytoplankton
- 9.7 Sampling and counting problems: time and space scales
- 9.8 The seasonal successions of species: the ideal sequences
- 9.9 Nutrient ratios and the role of competition
- 10 Community structure and function in turbulent environments
- 10.1 Processes in phytoplankton successions
- 10.2 Structural trends in succession
- 10.3 Rates of succession
- 10.4 Succession in turbulent mixed layers
- 10.5 Manipulation of the species composition
- 10.6 Biomanipulation
- 11 Large number systems: empiricism
- 11.1 Observations of ecological diversity
- 11.2 Predictions of the distribution and occurrence of species
- 11.3 Phosphorus loadings and algal biomass
- 11.4 Manipulation of algal biomass
- 11.5 Phosphorus loadings and hypolimnial anoxia
- 11.6 Phosphorus loadings and the biomass of other organisms in the food chain
- 11.7 Size distributions in food chains
- 11.8 Phytoplankton biomass and fish production
- 12 Interannual variability
- 12.1 Long-term changes in phytoplankton abundance
- References.