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A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology
Thomas Kiørboe
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Beschreibung
The three main missions of any organism--growing, reproducing, and surviving--depend on encounters with food and mates, and on avoiding encounters with predators. Through natural selection, the behavior and ecology of plankton organisms have evolved to optimize these tasks. This book offers a mechanistic approach to the study of ocean ecology by exploring biological interactions in plankton at the individual level. The book focuses on encounter mechanisms, since the pace of life in the ocean intimately relates to the rate at which encounters happen.
Thomas Kiørboe examines the life and interactions of plankton organisms with the larger aim of understanding marine pelagic food webs. He looks at plankton ecology and behavior in the context of the organisms' immediate physical and chemical habitats. He shows that the nutrient uptake, feeding rates, motility patterns, signal transmissions, and perception of plankton are all constrained by nonintuitive interactions between organism biology and small-scale physical and chemical characteristics of the three-dimensional fluid environment.
Most of the book's chapters consist of a theoretical introduction followed by examples of how the theory might be applied to real-world problems. In the final chapters, mechanistic insights of individual-level processes help to describe broader population dynamics and pelagic food web structure and function.
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Carbohydrate, Biomass (ecology), Bacteria, Bioenergetics, Picoplankton, Filter feeder, Microbial food web, Bacterial growth, Salinity, Dinoflagellate, Oceanography, Food web, Total organic carbon, Biological interaction, Greenhouse gas, Population process, Eutrophication, Phytoplankton, Microbial loop, Motility, Mineralization (biology), Spawn (biology), Primary production, Population dynamics, Fishery, Diatom, Organism, Microorganism, Trophic level, Hydrozoa, Pseudopodia, Ecology, Parasitism, Prey switching, Biogeography, Functional response, Species diversity, Algae, Ecosystem, Functional ecology, Cyanobacteria, Water column, Plankton, Host (biology), Biological pump, Copepod, Nutrient, Marine biology, Plankton net, Food chain, Growth curve (biology), Protozoa, Crustacean, Micronutrient, Marine snow, Zooplankton, Evolutionary arms race, Paradox of the plankton, Optimal foraging theory, Flagellate, Invertebrate, Algal bloom, Organic compound, Centrifugation, Demersal fish, Predation, Brownian motion, Biological oceanography, Power law, Critical Depth