Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle

Bys: North Atlantic Treaty Organization and NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Deep-

Bacterial Standing Stock and Consumption Of Organic Carbon in The Benthic Boundary Layer of The Abyssal North Atlantic.- Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Deep-Sea Sediments: Towards A Global View.- The Role of Deep-Sea Zooplankton in Carbon Cycles.- Abundance and Biomass of Metazoan Meiobenthos in The Deep Sea.- The Role Of Benthic Foraminifera in Deep-Sea Food Webs and Carbon Cycling.- Possible Roles For Xenophyophores in Deep-Sea Carbon Cycling.- Foraging of Scavenging Deep-Sea Lysianassoid Amphipods.- Deep-Sea Epibenthic Megafauna of The Northeast Atlantic: Abundance And Biomass At Three Mid-Oceanic Locations Estimated From Photographic Transects.- South Aegean (Eastern Mediterranean) Continental Slope Benthos: Macroinfaunal-Environmental Relationships.- Production/Biomass Ratios, Size Frequencies and Biomass Spectra in Deep-Sea Demersal Fishes.- Organic Carbon Flux Through The Benthic Community in The Temperate Abyssal Northeast Atlantic.- Benthic Secondary Production in The Deep Sea.- Metabolic Potential of Deep-Sea Animals: Regional and Global Scales.- Adenosine Nucleotides as Indicators of Deep-Sea Benthic Metabolism.- Effects of Spatial and Temporal Scale on The Relationship of Surface Pigment Biomass to Community Structure in The Deep-Sea Benthos.- Benthic Food Web Flows in The Santa Monica Basin Estimated Using Inverse Methodology.- Predicting Community Dynamics From Food Web Structure.- The Spatial Distribution of Sea Floor Oxygen Consumption in The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.- Using Monod Kinetics in Geochemical Models of Organic Carbon Mineralization in Deep Sea Surficial Sediments.- The Characterization of Organic Matter From Abyssal Sediments, Pore Waters and Sediment Traps.- Particle Export and Resuspension Fluxes in The Western North Atlantic.- Large Aggregate Flux and Fate at The Seafloor: Diagenesis During The Rebound Process.- Factors Controlling Bioturbation in Deep-Sea Sediments and Their Relation to Models of Carbon Diagenesis.- Adding Biology to One-Dimensional Models of Sediment-Carbon Degradation: The Multi-B Approach.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792316088
• ISBN13: 9780792316084
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"