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The biology of the deep ocean /
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007. (reprinted with corrections)
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| Colección: | Biology of habitats.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The deep-sea dimension
- The scale of the task
- The vertical dimension
- Differences between marine and terrestrial ecosystems
- Measurements and methods
- Biological sampling
- Living, growing, and daylight
- The fuel source: primary production
- The seasonal cycle
- Measurements of primary production
- Grazing and secondary production
- Life at the bottom
- The benthic environment
- Sampling the benthos
- Food resources
- Hydrothermal yents and cold seeps
- The hadal zone
- Spatial heterogeneity
- Patterns and changes
- Global views and patterns
- Horizontal distributions
- Vertical distributions
- On being efficient
- Energy management
- Maximizing energy input-how to eat a lot
- Maximizing assimilation efficiency
- Minimizing energy output-how to keep up in the water
- Metabolism, energy, and pressure
- Feeling and hearing
- Sensing vibrations
- Vibrations in water
- The hydrodynamic receptor system of fishes
- Sound production by fishes
- Invertebrate hydrodynamic receptors
- Sounds of marine mammals
- Electroreception and magnetic cues
- Chemical messages
- Taste or smell?
- Chemical cues and receptors
- Seeing in the dark
- Light in the ocean
- Eyes and their design conflicts
- Fish
- Invertebrates
- Camouflage, colour, and lights
- Camouflage and colour
- Lights in a dark environment: bioluminescence
- Size, sex, and seasonality
- Life histories
- Fecundity and egg size
- Body size
- Sex
- Juvenile characters (progenesis)
- Seasonality
- A wonderful variety of life: biodiversity of the deep-sea fauna
- Origins and habitats
- What is biodiversity?