Research Catalog

Title

Primary productivity and biogeochemical cycles in the sea / edited by Paul G. Falkowski and Avril D. Woodhead ; technical editor, Katherine Vivirito.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

• Falkowski, Paul G.
• Woodhead, Avril D.
• Conference on Primary Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea (1991 : Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Description

ix, 550 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Environmental science research ; v. 43

Uniform Title

Environmental science research ; v. 43.

Subjects

• Marine productivity > Congresses
• Biogeochemical cycles > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of the Conference on Primary Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea, held June 2-6, 1991, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York"--T.p. verso.
• "This volume is the result of the 37th Brookhaven Symposium in Biology"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Honorary Lecture. Towards Understanding the Roles of Phytoplankton in Biogeochemical Cycles: Personal Notes / Richard W. Eppley -- Factors Limiting Primary Productivity in the Sea: I. Light. The Nature and Measurement of the Light Environment in the Ocean / John T.O. Kirk. The Functional and Optical Absorption Cross-Sections of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis / Zvy Dubinsky. Molecular Ecology of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis / Paul G. Falkowski -- Factors Limiting Primary Productivity in the Sea: II. Nutrients. Nutrient Limitation and Marine Photosynthesis / John Cullen, Xiaolong Yang and Hugh L. MacIntyre. Geological and Climatic Time Scales of Nutrient Variability / Richard T. Barber. Nutrient Limitation of New Production in the Sea / Richard Dugdale and Frances Wilkerson. Iron as a Limiting Factor in Oceanic Productivity / John H. Martin -- Estimation of Global Ocean Production. Satellite Ocean Color Observations of Global Biogeochemical Cycles / Marlon R. Lewis.
• Advances in Understanding Phytoplankton Fluorescence and Photosynthesis / Dale A. Kiefer and Rick A. Reynolds. Bio-Optical Models and the Problems of Scaling / Robert R. Bidigare, Barbara B. Prezelin and Raymond C. Smith -- The Role of Marine Organisms in Primary Production. Phytoplankton Size / Sallie W. Chisholm. Productivity of Seaweeds / J. Ramus. Productivity of Zooxanthellae and Biogeochemical Cycles / Leonard Muscatine and Virginia Weis -- New Production and Biogeochemical Cycles. The Importance and Measurement of New Production / Trevor Platt, Pratima Jauhari and Shubha Sathyendranath. The Role of Coastal High Latitude Ecosystems in Global Export Production / Paul K. Bienfang and David A. Ziemann. Tracer-Based Inferenccs of New Primary Production in the Sea / W.J. Jenkins and D.W.R. Wallace. New Production and the Global Carbon Cycle / Jorge L. Sarmiento and Ulrich Siegenthaler -- Loss Processes and Material Recycling. Respiration: Taxation Without Representation? / Richard J. Geider.
• Bacterioplankton Roles in Cycling of Organic Matter: The Microbial Food Web / Jed Fuhrman. Regeneration of Nutrients / William G. Harrison. Grazing, Temporal Changes of Phytoplankton Concentrations, and the Microbial Loop in the Open Sea / Karl Banse -- Phytoplankton in the Global Content. Biosphere, Atmosphere, Ocean Interactions: A Plant Physiologist's Perspective / Joseph A. Berry. Reading the Sedimentary Record of the Ocean's Productivity / W.H. Berger and J.C. Herguera. Do Marine Phytoplankton Influence Global Climate? / P.M. Holligan.

ISBN

0306441926

LCCN

92003441

OCLC

• 25317414
• ocm25317414

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Columbia University Libraries