Marine Ecological Processes: Second Edition

**Marine Ecological Processes** is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader - particularly the graduate student - with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations and demonstrates how general ecological principles - derived from terrestrial and freshwater systems as well - apply to marine ecosystems. Numerous illustrations, examples, and references clearly impart to the reader the current state of research in this field; its achievements as well as unresolved controversies. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Producers and Processes Involved in Primary Production....Pages 3-35 Factors Affecting Primary Production....Pages 36-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Dynamics of Populations of Consumers....Pages 87-105 Competition for Resources Among Consumers....Pages 107-131 Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance....Pages 133-163 Food Selection by Consumers....Pages 165-201 Processing of Consumed Energy....Pages 203-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Trophic Structure 1: Controls in Benthic Food Webs....Pages 247-274 Trophic Structure 2: Components and Controls in Water Column Food Webs....Pages 275-304 Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity....Pages 305-324 Spatial Structure: Patchiness....Pages 325-353 Development of Structure in Marine Communities: Colonization and Succession....Pages 355-381 Front Matter....Pages 383-383 The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter....Pages 385-424 Nutrient Cycles and Ecosystem Stoichiometry....Pages 425-466 Seasonal Changes in Marine Ecosystems....Pages 467-497 Long-Term and Large-Scale Change in Marine Ecosystems....Pages 499-544 Back Matter....Pages 545-686