Marine food chains
By: edited by J. H. Steele
Contributors: Aarhus universitet; International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; Steele, John H., editor
Publisher: Otto Koeltz Antiquariat
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Koeningstein-TS./B.R.D
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Marine ecology; Congresses; Food chains (Ecology)
Notes: "Proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from 23rd to 26th July 1968 ... under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea."

Reprint of the 1970 ed. published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Organic macromolecular compounds dissolved in sea water and their inclusion into food chains / K.M. Khailov and Z.Z. Finenko; title: Energy flow in a sand ecosystem / A.D. McIntyre, A.L.S. Munro and J.H. Steele; title: Particulate organic matter and its role in the productivity of the sea / Z.Z. Finenko and V.E. Zaika; title: Some problems related to the food chain in a tropical estuary / S.Z. Qasim; title: Food transfer through the lower trophic levels of the benthic environment / N. Marshall; title: Growth and metabolism of two planktonic, marine copepods as influenced by temperature and type of food / M.M. Mullin and E.R. Brooks; title: The influence of temperature on the transformation of matter in marine invertebrates / I.V. Ivleva; title: Variations of length, weight, respiratory rate, and chemical composition of Calanus cristatus in relation to its food and feeding / M. Omori; title: Food rations, metabolism and growth of crustaceans / L.M. Sushchenya; title: The food web structure, utilization and transport of energy by trophic levels in the planktonic communities / T.S. Petipa, E.V. Pavlova and G.N. Mironov; title: The biology of Chaetognatha. 1, Quantitative aspects of growth and egg production in Sagitta hispida / M.R. Reeve; title: Filter feeding and food utilization in Arctica islandica L. and Modiolus modiolus L. at different food concentrations / J. Winter; title: On the significance of various ecological groups of animals in the bottom communities of the Greenland, Norwegian and the Barents seas / V.I. Zatsepin; title: Utilization of the direct grazing and plant detritus food chains by the striped mullet Mugil cephalus / W.E. Odum; title: Feeding pattern of baleen whales in the ocean / T. Nemoto; title: Experimental determination of food conversion and its application to ecology / L. Birkett; title: Utilization of zooplankton energy by a Pacific sardine population in the California current / R. Lasker; title: Dynamics of a benthic bivalve / A. Trevallion, R.R.C. Edwards and J.H. Steele; title: Food chain studies and some problems in world fisheries / J.A. Gulland; title: The availability of food to different trophic levels in the marine food chain / T.R. Parsons and R.J. LeBrasseur; title: Experimental studies in feeding and food requirements of herring larvae (Clupea harengus L.) / H. Rosenthal and G. Hempel; title: Trophic-dynamics of lake trout production systems / S.R. Kerr and N.V. Martin; title: Food specializations and bioenergetic interrelations in the fish faunas of some small Ontario waterways / A. Keast; title: Zooplankton rations, phytoplankton mortality and the estimation of marine production / C.D. McAllister; title: The biomass and production of different trophic levels in the pelagic communities of south seas / V.N. Greze; title: Analysis of trophic processes on the basis of density-dependent functions / R.W. Brocksen, G.E. Davis and C.E. Warren; title: Production and food supply / J.E. Paloheimo and L.M. Dickie; title: Marine ecosystem development in polar regions / M.J. Dunbar; title: Summary of the symposium / L.B. Slobodkin.