Deep-sea biology : a natural history of organisms at the deep-sea floor /
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| Author / Creator: | Gage, John D. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | xvi, 504 p. : ill.; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1267623 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Development of Deep-Sea Biology, The Physical Environment and Methods of Study
- 1. Historical aspects
- 2. The physical environment of the deep-sea
- 3. Methods of study of the organisms of the deep-sea floor
- Part II. Organisms of the Deep-Sea Benthic Boundary
- 4. The megafauna
- 5. Smaller animals
- Part III. Patterns in Space
- 6. Small-scale spatial patterns
- 7. Abundance and size structure of the deep-sea benthos
- 8. The diversity gradient
- 9. Depth-related patterns in community composition
- 10. Zoogeography, speciation and the origins of deep-sea fauna
- Part IV. Processes Patterns in Time
- 11. Food resources, energetics and feeding strategies
- 12. Metabolic processes: microbial ecology at the deep-sea bed
- 13. Reproduction, recruitment and growth of deep-sea organisms
- 14. Animal sediment relations in the deep-sea
- Part V. Parallel Systems and Anthropogenic Effects
- 15. Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps
- 16. Anthropogenic impacts: man's effects on the deep-sea
