The sandy sediments that blanket the inner shelf are situated in a zone where nutrient input
from land and strong mixing produce maximum primary production and tight coupling …

Deposit-feeding animals acquire food by swallowing large volumes of sediment. Possible
food sources include organic debris and sediment-associated microbes. The relative …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

So my aim during this lecture will be to look at streams not as purely aquatic phenomena, as
one can with lakes, but rather to view them as parts of the valleys that they drain. I shall …

It would not have been possible for me to write the three editions of this book without a
double dose of extraordinary fortune: to have been part of the Woods Hole scientific …

The composition of any environment or object is determined by a particular balance
between material transport processes and chemical reactions within and around it. In the …

This book is written for ecologists and protozoologists. Ecologists who study environments
and biotic communities in which protozoa are important should find this book especially …

The apparent digestibility coefficients for 4 size classes of the green turtle Chelonia mydas
feeding on the seagrass Thalassia testudinum were measured in Union Creek, Great …

Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance
to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixation …

The detritus pathway is that in which plant or animal material dies and is then attacked by
microorganisms. More of the energy fixed by autotrophic organisms is probably transferred …