Productivity of the Ocean
Past and Present
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 26. April 1989
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-0-471-92246-9 (ISBN)
Description
Productivity and paleoproductivity of the ocean are important topics in the study of the carbon cycle of the ocean and atmosphere which link ocean chemistry and climate. In this volume the central themes discussed are continuous versus episodic production and associated export from the photic zone, carbon flux from transfer of particulate carbon versus transfer of dissolved organic matter, the role of seafloor processes in remobilization of carbon and nutrients, and long-term reconstruction of productivity and its relationships to the fluctuations of carbon dioxide through geological time. The text will be of benefit to physicists, chemists, geochemists, sedimentologists, stratigraphers, atmospheric scientists and biological, physical and chemical oceanographers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 half-tones, 4 colour plates, 87 line figures, 19 tables, indices
Dimensions
Height: 54 mm
Width: 36 mm
Weight
920 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92246-9 (9780471922469)
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Editor
Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar-und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, West Germany
Geowissenschaften, Universitat Bremen, West Germany
Content
Ocean productivity and paleoproductivity - an overview, W.H.Berger et al; food web structure and loss rate, R.Peinert; hydrodynamical singularities as controls of recycled versus export production in oceans, L.Legendre and J.Le Fevre; is the downward dissolved organic matter (DOM) flux important in carbon transport?, J.R.Toggweiler; new production - history, methods, problems, R.W.Eppley; export productivity from the photic zone, P.J.B.Williams et al; regional extremes in particulate matter composition and flux - effects on the chemistry of the ocean interior, J.K.B.Bishop; particle flux in the ocean - effects of episodic production, G.Wefer; does Mesopelagic biology affect the vertical flux?, M.V.Angel; how much shelf production reaches the deep sea?, J.J.Walsh; flux to the seafloor, P.K.Bienfang et al; control of Benthic fluxes by particulate supply, C.E.Reimers; responses of benthos to changing food quality and quantity, with a focus on deposit feeding and bioturbation, P.A.Jumars and R.A.Wheatcroft; productivity record in Benthic foraminifera, A.V.Altenbach and M.Sarnthein; lipid biomarkers as geochemical tools for paleoceanographic study, F.G.Prahl and L.A.Muehlhausen; transformation of seafloor-arriving fluxes into the sedimentary record, A.V.Altenbach et al; pleistocene paleoproductivity - evidence from organic carbon and foraminiferal species, A.C.Mix; tertiary cooling steps and paleoproductivity as reflected by diatoms and biosiliceous sediments, J.A.Barron and J.G.Baldauf; inventory of paleoproductivity records - the mid-cretaceous enigma, H.R.Thierstein; phosphorus versus nitrogen limitation of new and export production, L.A.Codispoti; paleoproduction and atmospheric CO2 based on ocean modeling, R.S.Keir; geological reconstructions of marine productivity, T.D.Herbert et al. Appendix: global maps of ocean productivity, W.H.Berger.