Excerpt from Bottom-Water Temperatures on the Continental Shelf, Nova Scotia to New Jersey It is not easy to generalize and to designate any one physical factor as having greater eco logical infiuence than any other in the complex environment of continental shelf waters. How ever, -both laboratory and field observations have shown that temperature is a factor of prime im portance because of its action (1) directly upon physiological processes such as metabolic rate and reproductive cycle and (2) indirectly through its influence on other environmental factors such as dissolved gases, viscosity, and density. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.