Oceanography and Marine Biology
Subtitle: Volume 41
Contributors: Atkinson, R. J. A.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780203180570
Subjects: Oceanography
Description: The ever increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing the results of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review has catered for this demand since its foundation, by the late Harold Barnes, over 40 years ago. Its objectives are to consider, annually, basic areas of marine research, returning to them when appropriate in future volumes; to deal with subjects of special and topical importance; and to add new ones as they arise. The favorable reception acc.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Oxygen minimum zone benthos: adaptation and community response to hypoxia; Antarctic marine benthic diversity; Influence of marine allochthonous input on sandy beach communities; The effects of sedimentation on rocky coast assemblages; Exotic molluscs in the Mediterranean basin: current status and perspectives; Detritus in the epilithic algal matrix and its use by coral reef fishes; Ecology of whale falls at the deep-sea floor; The diet of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the northeast Atlantic: a review; Author index; Systematic index.; title: Subject index.