A Hierarchical Approach to Modelling Soft-Bottom Successional Dynamics

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1985

Subject: LCSH

Ecological succession

Disciplines

Biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Marine Biology

Abstract

Book summary: These edited proceedings, first published in 1985, provide a thematic review of four important areas of marine biology. The theme of the first part of the volume is production at boundary systems and in particular it deals with rates of production and related processes at boundary systems, including shelf breaks, thermoclines and the fronts between stratified and mixed waters and the contribution of the production of such systems to the overall productivity of a region. The second part looks at the dynamics of deep-sea life: new techniques of and results from direct observation, in situ experimentation and sampling, especially those concerning rates and processes in the deep sea. The third part examines concepts of community organisation in the benthos: theoretical and empirical studies that synthesise the structural and functional properties of benthic communities. The final section on adaptive relevance of variability in biochemical and physiological processes, with particular emphasis on relationships between population genetics and physiological and biochemical ecology.

Publisher Citation

Zajac, R. N.; Whitlatch, R.B. (1985). A hierarchical approach to modelling soft-bottom successional dynamics, in: Gibbs, P.E. (Ed.) (1985). Proceedings of the 19th European Marine Biology Symposium, Plymouth, Devon, UK, 16-21 September 1984. pp. 265-276.

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