Marine ecology: a comprehensive, integrated treatise on life in oceans and coastal waters / editor Otto Kinne

Volumen 1 y 2 divididos en dos partes

Vol. 1. Environmental factors -- Vol. 2. Physiological mechanisms -- Vol. 3. Cultivation -- Vol. 4. Dynamics

Volume I: Environmental Factors summarizes and evaluates important information available on the responses of ocean and coastal-water living organisms to variations in the major abiotic components of the environment.. Chapter 1: Oceans and Coastal Waters as Life-supporting Environments.. Chapter 2: Light.. Chapter 3: Temperature.. Chapter 4: Salinity.. Chapter 5: Water Movement.. Chapter 6: Turbidity.. Chapter 7: Substratum.. Chapter 8: Pressure.. Chapter 9: Dissolved Gases.. Chapter 10: Organic Substances.. Chapter 11: Ionizing Radiation.. Chapter 12: Factor Combinations.. Volume II: Physiological Mechanisms deals with synthesis and transversion of organic material, regulation, evolution, and population genetics, as well as with orientation to environmental components in space and time.. Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume II.. Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Chemo-autotrophy.. Chapter 3: Mechanisms of Heterotrophy.. Chapter 4: Mechanisms of Thermoregulation.. Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Ion and Osmoregulation.. Chapter 6: Mechanisms of Evolution and Population Genetics.. Chapter 7: Orientation in Space: Plants.. Chapter 8: Orientation in Space: Animals.. Chapter 9: Orientation in Time: Endogenous Clocks.. Volume III: Cultivation reviews the information that has accumulated on our capacity for supporting marine micro-organisms, plants, and animals under environmental and nutritive conditions that are, to a considerable degree, controlled.. Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume III.. Chapter 2: Cultivation of Marine Organisms: Water-quality Management and Technology.. Chapter 3: Cultivation of Micro-organisms.. Chapter 4: Cultivation of Plants.. Chapter 5: Cultivation of Animals.. Chapter 5.1: Cultivation of Animals.. Chapter 6: Multispecies Cultures and Microcosms.. Chapter 7: Chemical Contamination of Culture Media: Assessment, Avoidance and Control

Volume IV: Dynamics focuses on production, transformation, and decomposition of organic matter in the marine environment, as well as on food webs and population dynamics.. Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume IV.. Chapter 2: Production in Plant Populations.. Chapter 3: Production in Animal Populations.. Chapter 4: Production of Dissolved Organic Matter.. Chapter 5: Transformation of Organic Matter.. Chapter 6: Decomposition of Organic Matter and Nutrient Regeneration.. Chapter 7: General Concepts of Population Dynamics and Food Links..