Antarctic nutrient cycles and food webs
By: Fourth SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Wilderness, South Africa, 12-16 September 1983 ; sponsors, International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU) ... [et al.] ; organizers, scientific steering committee, SCAR Working Group on Biology, local organizing committee, SASCAR Subcommittee on Biological Sciences, in connection with the journal Polar biology ; edited by W.R. Siegfried, P.R. Condy, and R.M. Laws.
Contributors: Siegfried, W. R.; Condy, P. R. 1948-; Laws, Richard M.; International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.; International Council of Scientific Unions.; SCAR Working Group on Biology.
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Nutrient cycles -- Antarctica -- Congresses.; Food chains (Ecology) -- Antarctica -- Congresses.
Description: Compilation of 92 of the 107 papers that were accepted for presentation at the Fourth SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, held at Wilderness, South Africa, 12-16 September 1983. Papers cover nutrient cycling in terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic regions. Organized under five main sections: marine nutrient cycles; Terrestrial and freshwater nutrient cycles; Marine food webs; Terrestrial food webs; Interactions between marine, freshwater, and terrestrial systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.