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The Ecology of Seashores


Author(s): Knox; George A.
ISBN10:  0849300088
ISBN13:  9780849300080
Format:  Hardcover
Pub. Date:  12/21/2000
Publisher(s): CRC

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SummaryTable of Contents
A textbook providing exhaustive coverage of the complex shore environment. Emphasizes ecological processes and the use of systems analysis to understand them. Covers rocky shores, soft shores, sandy beaches, and estuaries, at an advanced level. Discusses energy budgets, patterns of energy flow, and other important topics. DLC: Seashore ecology.
The Environment
Introduction
1(1)
Environment Gradients and Stresses on the Shore
2(1)
Salient Features of the Shore Environment
2(14)
Patterns of Zonation on the Shore
16(4)
Hard Shores
Zonation Patterns on Hard Shores
20(4)
Zonation Patterns on Representative Shores
24(12)
The Causes of Zonation
36(15)
Hard Shore Microalgae
51(2)
Hard Shore Micro- and Meiofauna
53(1)
Rocky Shore Lichens
54(2)
Hard Shore Macroalgae
56(2)
Key Faunal Components
58(12)
Special Habitats
70(17)
Soft Shores
Soft Shores as a Habitat
87(5)
The Physicochemical Environment
92(4)
Soft Shore Types
96(2)
Estuaries
98(9)
Soft Shore Primary Producers
107(46)
Soft Shore Fauna
153(28)
Biological Modification of the Sediment
181(7)
Microbial Ecology and Organic Detritus
188(21)
Nutrient Cycling
209(19)
Estuarine Shelf Interactions
228(10)
Adaptations to Shore Life
Introduction
238(1)
Ecological Niches on the Shore
238(13)
The Establishment of Zonation Patterns
251(12)
The Maintenance of Zonation Patterns
263(14)
Control of Community Structure
Introduction
277(1)
Hard Shores
277(40)
Soft Shores
317(27)
Synthesis of Factors Involved in Controlling Community Structure
344(12)
Energy Flow, Food Webs, and Material Cycling
Introduction
356(1)
Food Sources
356(4)
Energy Budgets for Individual Species
360(14)
Optimal Foraging
374(3)
Secondary Production
377(3)
P:B Ratios and Production Efficiency
380(1)
Relative Contribution of Soft Shore Benthic Infauna to Secondary Production
381(4)
Community Metabolism
385(4)
Trophic Structure and Food Webs
389(17)
Carbon Flow Models
406(6)
Stable Isotopes and Food Web Analysis
412(9)
Top-down and Bottom-up Control of Trophic Structure
421(5)
Ecosystem Models
Introduction
426(1)
Hard Shores
427(1)
Sand Beaches
428(5)
Intertidal Mudflat in the Lynher Estuary, Cornwall, U.K.
433(1)
Salt Marshes
433(7)
Sea Grass Ecosystems
440(2)
Mangrove Ecosystems
442(1)
Estuaries
443(13)
Network Analysis
456(13)
Potential Applications of the Ascendency Concept
469(2)
Emergy Analysis
471(2)
Appendix 473(4)
References 477(66)
Index 543

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