Marine Food Chains
Author | : John H. Steele |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520013971 |
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Author | : John H. Steele |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520013971 |
Author | : Suzanne Buckingham Slade |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1543599389 |
The Great Barrier ReefÊ teems with life. From algae to a grey reef shark, the animals in this book are linked together in a food chain. Each one of them needs the others in order to live. Find out what eats what in the ocean!
Author | : Angela Royston |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1484605195 |
"This book explores the food chains and webs that exist in a mountain habitat. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers learn how fragile food chains can be, how they can be broken, and what we can do to prevent this."--
Author | : Rebecca Pettiford |
Publisher | : Who Eats What |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN | : 9781620313022 |
In Ocean Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the ocean biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals in a marine environment. A map helps readers identify the world's oceans, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about ocean food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Ocean Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Ocean Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series.
Author | : G.T. Rowe |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401124523 |
Carbon dioxide and other `greenhouse' gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, the destruction of rain forests, etc., leading to predictions of a gradual global warming which will perturb the global biosphere. An important process which counters this trend toward potential climate change is the removal of carbon dioxide from the surface ocean by photosynthesis. This process packages carbon in phytoplankton which enter the food chain or sink into the deep sea. Their ultimate fate is a `rain' of organic debris out of the surface-mixed layer of the ocean. On a global scale, the mechanisms and overall rate of this process are poorly known. The authors of the 25 papers in this volume present their state-of-the-art approaches to quantifying the mechanisms by which the `rain' of biogenic debris nourishes deep ocean life. Prominent deep sea ecologists, geochemists and modelers address relationships between data and models of carbon fluxes and food chains in the deep ocean. An attempt is made to estimate the fate of carbon in the deep sea on a global scale by summing up the utilization of organic matter among all the populations of the abyssal biosphere. Comparisons are made between these ecological approaches and estimates of geochemical fluxes based on sediment trapping, one-dimensional geochemical models and horizontal (physical) input from continental margins. Planning interdisciplinary enterprises between geochemists and ecologists, including new field programs, are summarized in the final chapter. The summary includes a list of the important gaps in understanding which must be addressed before the role of the deep-sea biota in global-scale processes can be put in perspective.
Author | : Donald C. Behringer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-01-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198821638 |
Whether through loss of habitat or cascading community effects, diseases can shape the very nature of the marine environment. Despite their significant impacts, studies of marine diseases have tended to lag behind their terrestrial equivalents, particularly with regards to their ecological effects. However, in recent decades global research focused on marine disease ecology has expanded at an accelerating rate. This is due in part to increases in disease emergence across many taxa, but can also be attributed to a broader realization that the parasites responsible for disease are themselves important members of marine communities. Understanding their ecological relationships with the environment and their hosts is critical to understanding, conserving, and managing natural and exploited populations, communities, and ecosystems. Courses on marine disease ecology are now starting to emerge and this first textbook in the field will be ideally placed to serve them. Marine Disease Ecology is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the fields of marine disease ecology, aquaculture, fisheries, veterinary science, evolution and conservation. It will also be of relevance and use to a broader interdisciplinary audience of government agencies, NGOs, and marine resource managers.
Author | : Tim McClanahan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008-04-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780198043195 |
Biologists have made significant advances in our understanding of the Earth's shallow subtidal marine ecosystems, but the findings on these disparate regions have never before been documented and gathered in a single volume. Now, in Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs, Tim R. McClanahan and George M. Branch fill this lacuna with a comparative and comprehensive collection of nine essays written by experts on specific aquatic regions. Each essay focuses on the food webs of a respective ecosystem and the factors affecting these communities, from the intense and direct pressure of human influence on fisheries to the multi-vector contributors to climate change. The book covers nine shallow water marine ecosystems from selected areas throughout the world: four coral reef systems, three hard bottom systems, and two kelp systems. In summarizing their organization, human influence on them, and recent developments in these ecosystems, the authors contribute to our understanding of their ecological organization and management. Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs will be a useful tool for all benthic marine investigators, providing an expert, comparative view of these aquatic regions.
Author | : Rebecca Pettiford |
Publisher | : Pogo |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Coral reef ecology |
ISBN | : 9781620315736 |
"In Coral Reef Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the coral reef biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals on a coral reef. A map helps readers identify major reefs in the world's oceans, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about coral reef food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Coral Reef Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Coral Reef Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series."
Author | : W.R. Siegfried |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 715 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642822754 |
It is a pleasure and a distinct honour for me to greet the participants, guests and ob servers of this Fourth International Symposium on Antarctic Biology which has adopted nutrient cycles and food webs as its central theme. On behalf of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and other bodies of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), I bid you welcome. SCAR is pleased to acknowledge the role of the co-sponsors for this Symposium which include the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the Interna tional Association of Biological Oceanography (IABO), and the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). In addition, SCAR and its co-sponsors wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Re search (CSIR) and the Department of Transport (DOT) of the South African govern ment. Nor should we forget to acknowledge also the role of the South African Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SASCAR) and one of its leaders and Vice President of SCAR, Mr. Jan de Wit, in arranging this charming venue for this Symposium.
Author | : Patricia Lauber |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cycles |
ISBN | : 9780060229818 |
"Explains the concept of a food chain and how plants, animals, and humans are ecologically linked." -- T.p. verso.