Response of marine ecosystems to global change
Subtitle: ecological impact of appendicularians
By: edited by G. Gorsky, M.J. Youngbluth and D. Deibel.
Contributors: Gorsky, Gabriel.; Youngbluth, Marsh J.; Deibel, Donald.
Publisher: Contemporary Publishing International
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9782847030297
Subjects: Tunicata.; Global environmental change.; Marine ecology.
Notes: Cover title.

This book arose from a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop held in December 2001 at the Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: PHYLOGENETICS. The role of appendicularians in chordate evolution - a phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological characters, with remarks on neoteny-scenarios / Thomas Stach, James M. Turbeville; value: A diversity of sperm in appendicularians: Are appendicularians monophyletic? / Linda Z. Holland, Gabriel Gorsky, Robert Fenaux. DIVERSITY. Diversity in larvaceans: how many species? / Russell R. Hopcroft; value: Toward a photographic atlas on special taxonomic characters of oikopleurid Appendicularia (Tunicata) / Per R. Flood. BIOLOGY. Patterning and organisation of the house secreting epithelium of Oikopleura dioica / Eric M. Thompson, Fabio Spada, Philippe Ganot; value: Synchronous spermatogenesis in appendicularians / Giambruno Martinucci, Carlo Brena, Francesca Cima, Paolo Burighel; value: The effect of gamete interactions on fertilization success in a planktonic environment, a revision of models using the larvacean Oikopleura dioica / Richard L. Miller, Peter Wu, Gabriel Gorsky; value: Gut histochemistry in Oikopleura dioica / Giambruno Martinucci, Carlo Brena, Francesca Cima, Paolo Burighel; value: The appendicularian alimentary tract / Giambruno Martinucci, Carlo Brena, Francesca Cima, Paolo Burighel; value: Amino acid and fatty acid contents in the appendicularian (Oikopleura dioica) fed micro algae / Hans Jørgen Fyhn, Olav Mjaavatten, Jon Olav Larsen, Maria Sula Evjen, Gabriel Gorsky; value: Clearance and ingestion rates of three appendicularian species, Oikopleura longicauda, O. rufescens, and O. fusiformis / Riki Sato, Yuji Tanaka, Takashi Ishimaru; value: Clearance rates and efficiencies of Oikopleura fusiformis on the natural prey assemblage of a subtropical coastal ecosystem / Rebecca D. Scheinberg, Michael R. Landry. POPULATION DYNAMICS. Seasonal distribution, diversity and biochemical composition of appendicularians in Norwegian fjords / Ulf Båmstedt, Hans Jørgen Fyhn, Monica B. Martinussen, Olav Mjaavatten, Otto Grahl-Nielsen; value: A comparison of appendicularian seasonal cycles in four distinct European coastal environments / Ángel López-Urrutial ... [et al.]; value: Biometeorology of North Sea appendicularians / Wulf Greve. CARBON FLUX. The potential contribution of fecal pellets from the larvacean Oikopleura dioica to vertical flux of carbon in a river dominated coastal margin / Michael J. Dagg, Susan L. Brown; value: The contribution of discarded appendicularian houses to the flux of particulate organic carbon from oceanic surface waters / Alice Alldredge; value: The role of appendicularian tunicates in the biogenic carbon cycle of three Arctic polynyas / Don Deibel ... [et al.]. PREDATOR-PREY RELATIONSHIP. A review of appendicularians as prey of invertebrate and fish predators / Jennifer E. Purcell, Moly V. Sturdevant, Charles P. Galt.