Island, Ocean, and Deep-Sea Biology

by Jones, Malcolm B.; Azevedo, J. M. N.; Neto, A. I.; Costa, A. C.; Martins, A. M. Frias

• ISBN13: 9780792368465
• ISBN10: 0792368460
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The 34th European Marine Biology Symposium was held in Ponta Delgada, The Azores, between 13th and 17th September 1999. It was organised by the University of the Azores in association with the Municipal Museum of Funchal (Madeira), and the Plymouth Environment Research Centre (University of Plymouth, UK). The selected topics, dictated by the position of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, were: 'Ecology and Evolution on Island Shores', 'The Open Ocean', and 'The Deep Ocean'. Each topic was introduced by a recognised expert of international reputation and these keynote reviews provide authoritative summaries of the current status of these very important topics in marine biology. The 35 papers which make up this volume bring new ideas and concepts relating to the functioning of marine systems extending from the intertidal, through the pelagic realm down to the deep sea. The book covers many aspects of the biology of marine organisms and will have wide interest to all those interested in the life of the world's oceans.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of participants	xi
Ecology and Evolution on Island Shores
INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Thoughts on the ecology and evolution of the intertidal biota of the Azores and other Atlantic islands	3	(16)
S.J. Hawkins
H.B.S.M. Corte-Real
F.G. Pannacciulli
L.C. Weber
J.D.D. Bishop
A provisional classification of algal characterized rocky shore biotopes in the Azores	19	(8)
I. Tittley
A.I. Neto
Variability at different spatial scales of a coralligenous assemblage at Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, northwest Mediterranean)	27	(10)
F. Ferdeghini
S. Acunto
S. Cocito
F. Cinelli
Diversity, recruitment and competition on island shores at south-polar localities compared with lower latitudes: encrusting community examples	37	(8)
D.K.A. Barnes
Are kelp holdfasts islands on the ocean floor? - indication for temporarily closed aggregations of peracarid crustaceans	45	(10)
M. Thiel
J.A. Vasquez
A sponge diversity centre within a marine 'island'	55	(10)
J.J. Bell
D.K.A. Barnes
An offshore buoy as a small artificial island and a fish aggregating device (FAD) in the Mediterranean	65	(16)
G. Relini
M. Relini
L. Relini Orsi
M. Montanari
Periodic movement, recruitment and size-related distribution of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Solomon Islands	81	(20)
A. Mercier
S.C. Battaglene
J.-F. Hamel
A ``minimum stress inflexion'' in relation to environmental and biotic influences on the dynamics of subtidal encrusting communities?	101	(10)
B.C. Maughan
D.K.A. Barnes
Shell occupancy of the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus (Decapoda, Diogenidae) on Sao Miguel (Azores)	111	(8)
A.Z. Botelho
A.C. Costa
Direct and indirect effects of Littorina littorea (L.) on barnacles growing on mussel beds in the Wadden Sea	119	(10)
C. Buschbaum
Age and growth, reproduction and diet of a sublittoral population of the rock goby Gobius paganellus (Teleostei, Gobiidae)	129	(8)
J.M.N. Azevedo
A.M.V. Simas
Luminous capabilities and life-history traits of the polychromatic ophiuroid Amphipholis squamata in two isolated populations from Oliveri-Tindari lagoon system (Sicily)	137	(8)
S. Dupont
J. Mallefet
Physical control of plankton population abundance and dynamics in intertidal rock pools	145	(8)
M.P. Johnson
New records of brown algae (Phaeophyta) from the Azores	153	(8)
M.I. Parente
R.L. Fletcher
A.I. Neto
The Open Ocean
INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Quantification of diel vertical migration by micronektonic taxa in the northeast Atlantic	161	(20)
M.V. Angel
P.R. Pugh
Colonization of floating seaweed by pelagic and subtidal benethic animals in south-western Iceland	181	(10)
A. Ingolfsson
Semper's (zoanthid) larvae: pelagic life, parentage and other problems	191	(10)
J.S. Ryland
S. de Putron
R.S. Scheltema
P.J. Chimonides
D.G. Zhadan
The Deep Ocean
INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS
A review of the distribution of hydrothermal vent communities along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: dispersal vs. environmental controls	201	(16)
D. Desbruyeres
A. Almeida
M. Biscoito
T. Comtet
A. Khripounoff
N. Le Bris
P.-M. Sarradin
M. Segonzac
The effect of water depth on bacterial numbers, thymidine incorporation rates and C:N ratios in northeast Atlantic surficial sediments	217	(10)
J.L. Dixon
C.M. Turley
Distribution of live benthic Foraminifera at three oceanographically dissimilar sites in the northeast Atlantic: preliminary results	227	(12)
J.A. Hughes
A.J. Gooday
J.W. Murray
Foraminiferan (Protozoa) epizoites on deep-water arcturids (Crustacea, Isopoda)	239	(10)
J. Svavarsson
S.H. Olafsdottir
Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling?	249	(12)
L. Della Tommasa
G. Belmonte
A. Palanques
P. Puig
F. Boero
Patterns in deep-sea macrobenthos at the continental margin: standing crop, diversity and faunal change on the continental slope off Scotland	261	(12)
J.D. Gage
P.A. Lamont
K. Kroeger
G.L.J. Patterson
J.L. Gonzalez Vecino
Lipid profiles of Nematocarcinus gracilis, a deep-sea shrimp from below the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone	273	(8)
C.E. Allen
P. Tyler
M.S. Varney
Community structure of deep-sea demersal fish in the Northern Aegean Sea (north-eastern Mediterranean)	281	(18)
M. Labropoulou
C. Papaconstantinou
Open Session
Influence of light and nitrogen on the phlorotannin content of the brown seaweeds Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus	299	(8)
H. Pavia
G. Toth
Nutrification impacts on coral reefs from northern Bahia, Brazil	307	(10)
O.S. Costa, Jr.
Z.M.A.N. Leao
M. Nimmo
M.J. Attrill
Stable isotope evidence of benthic microalgae-based growth and secondary production in the suspension feeder Cerastoderma edule (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the Marennes-Oleron Bay	317	(14)
P.-G. Sauriau
C.-K. Kang
Annual growth of the cockle Clinocardium ciliatum in the Norwegian Arctic (Svalbard area)	331	(8)
M.E. Tallqvist
J.H. Sundet
Distribution and abundance of co-occurring chthamalid barnacles Chthamalus montagui and Chthamalus stellatus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) on the southwest coast of Portugal	339	(8)
E.B. Sousa
T. Cruz
J.J. Castro
Predation by juvenile Platichthys flessus (L.) on shelled prey species in a bare sand and a drift algae habitat	347	(10)
K. Aarnio
J. Mattila
Feast or famine for intertidal grazing molluscs: a mis-match between seasonal variations in grazing intensity and the abundance of microbial resources	357	(12)
R.C. Thompson
M.F. Roberts
T.A. Norton
S.J. Hawkins
Bioturbation as a mechanism for setting and maintaining levels of diversity in subtidal macrobenthic communities	369	(10)
S. Widdicombe
M.C. Austen
M.A. Kendall
R.M. Warwick
M.B. Jones
Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in an environment with multiple gradients of physical disturbance, Manukau Harbour, New Zealand	379
J.I. Ellis
D.C. Schneider
S.F. Thrush