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Diversity of Southern Ocean Deep-Sea Benthos Between Cosmopolitism and Cryptic Speciation
Author | : Myriam Schüller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Benthos |
ISBN | : 9781775572220 |
Ecosystems of the Deep Oceans
Author | : P.A. Tyler |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2003-03-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 008049465X |
This volume examines the deep sea ecosystem from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapters examine the deep-sea floor, the deep pelagic environment and the more specialised chemosynthetic environments of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. These environments are examined from the perspective of the relationship of deep-sea animals to their physico-chemical environment. Later chapters examine the biogeography of the main deep oceans (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) with particular attention to the downward flux of surface-derived organic matter and how this drives the processes within the deep-sea ecosystem. The peripheral deep seas including the polar seas and the marginal deep seas (inter alia the Mediterranean, Red, Caribbean and Okhotsk seas) are explored in the same context. The final chapters examine the processes occurring in the deep sea and include an analysis of why the deep sea has high species diversity, how the fauna respond to organic input and how species have adapted reproductive activity in the deep sea. The volume concludes with an analysis of the anthropogenic impact on the deep sea.
Marine Animal Forests
Author | : Sergio Rossi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319210117 |
During the last decades there has been an increasing evidence of drastic changes in marine ecosystems due to human-induced impacts, especially on benthic ecosystems. The so called “animal forests” are currently showing a dramatic loss of biomass and biodiversity all over the world. These communities are dominated by sessile suspension feeder organisms (such as sponges, corals, gorgonians, bivalves, etc.) that generate three-dimensional structures, similar to the trees in the terrestrial forest. The animal forest provide several ecosystem services such as food, protection and nursery to the associated fauna, playing an important role in the local hydrodynamic and biogeochemical cycles near the sea floor and acting also as carbon sinks. The present book focus its attention on these three dimensional animal structures including, for the first time, all the different types of animal forests of the world in a single volume.
Biology of the Southern Ocean
Author | : George A. Knox |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2006-12-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1420005138 |
First published in 1993, The Biology of the Southern Ocean has been referred to as international research at its best and an invaluable reference. Drawing on the considerable volume of information published in the last ten years, this second edition retains the format that made the first edition a popular bestseller, while updating the information
Zoogeographic and Richness Patterns in Southern Ocean Benthos
Author | : Huw James Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : |
Methods for the Study of Deep-Sea Sediments, Their Functioning and Biodiversity
Author | : Roberto Danovaro |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2009-12-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1439811385 |
For years scientists viewed the deep sea as calm, quiet, and undisturbed, with marine species existing in an ecologically stable and uniform environment. Recent discoveries have completely transformed that understanding and the deep sea is recognized as a complicated and dynamic environment with a rich diversity of marine species. Carefully designe