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UNINA9910967585503321 |
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Marine phytoplankton / / William T. Kersey and Samuel P. Munger, editors |
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New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oceanography and ocean engineering series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KerseyWilliam T |
MungerSamuel P |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- MICROPHYTOBENTHOS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURE OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS: TAXONOMY ANDDIVERSITY -- SEASONAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY -- METHODS AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS RELATEDTO THE STUDY OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS -- PRIMARY PRODUCTION OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS: IMPORTANCEOF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS ON COASTAL TROPHIC NETS -- INFLUENCE OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS ON SEDIMENT DYNAMICS -- ECOTOXICOLOGY OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS -- FURTHER STUDIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NEAR BOTTOM PHYTOPLANKTON AND SESTON:IMPORTANCE IN THE PELAGIC-BENTHICCOUPLING PROCESSES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION: BASIC CONCEPTS AND COMPONENTS -- 2. THE COMPLEXITY OF NEAR BOTTOM WATER LAYERS -- 2.1. Competence for Light and Nutrients -- 2.2. The Importance of High Frequency Sampling -- 2.3. The Temporary Component of Phytoplankton: Resting Stages and Cysts -- 3. DIFFERENT HABITATS, DIFFERENT FEATURES -- 3.1. Warm Temperate Seas -- 3.2. Cold Temperate Seas -- 3.3. Tidal Flats -- 3.4. Fjords -- 3.5. Tropical Seas -- 3.6. Polar Seas -- 3.7. The Deep Sea -- 4. BENTHIC ORGANISMS FEEDING ON NEAR BOTTOMPHYTOPLANKTON AND SESTON -- 5.1. Feeding Strategies and Phytoplankton Depletion -- 5.2. Absorption and Assimilation of Phytoplankton by the BenthicSuspension Feeders -- 5.3. Benthic-Pelagic Coupling and Food |
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Availability -- 5.4. The Nutrient Return to the System -- 5.5. Seasonality -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SLOW-DOWN OF OCEANIC CO2 UPTAKEIN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MODEL AND EXPERIMENTAL SETUP -- 3. METHODS -- 4. RESULTS -- 4.1. CO2 Fluxes -- 4.1.1. Global CO2 Fluxes -- 4.1.2. CO2 Flux Patterns -- 4.1.3. Regional CO2 Fluxes -- 4.1.3.1. Response to Emissions and Climate Change -- 4.1.3.2. Response to Climate Change -- 4.2. CO2 Flux Determining Properties -- 4.2.1. Solubility. |
4.2.2. Gas Transfer Velocity -- 4.2.3. Oceanic Partial Pressure and Atmosphere-Ocean Partial Pressure Difference -- 4.2.4. Fluxes Induced by Solubility, Kw And δPCO2 Changes -- 4. 3. CO2 Transport Out of the Surface Layer -- 4.3.1. Maximum Mixed Layer Depth -- 4.3.2. North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and AntarcticCircumpolar Current (ACC) -- 4.3.3. Export -- 5. DISCUSSION -- 5.1. Southern Ocean (35° and 60° S) -- 5.2. North Atlantic -- 5.3. Arctic and Southern Ocean South of 60°S -- 5.4. Equatorial Oceans and Low-Latitude Atlantic -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINOACIDS IN PHYTOPLANKTON:BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY AND OPTICS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOCHEMISTRY AND PATHWAYS OF SYNTHESISFOR MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO ACIDS -- PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO ACIDSTO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS -- INDUCTION OF MAAS BY PAR AND UV-R -- MAAS AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE: HOW ARE THEY RELATEDTO PHOTOPROTECTION? -- Sunscreen Efficiency of MAAs as Photoprotective Compounds: How WellDo MAAs Shade Vulnerable Organelles? -- SPECTRAL WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS FOR MAA SYNTHESISAND SCREENING -- MAA EXUDATION INTO THE DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER POOL:SOURCES AND SINKS -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN MAA RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE EFFECT OF NUTRIENT LIMITATION AND METALTOXICITY FOR THE GROWTH OF MARINE DIATOMPHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM BOHLIN:MICROPLATE BIOASSAY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NUTRIENT LIMITATION -- Nutrient Enrichment Bioassay -- METAL TOXICITY -- Algal Growth Inhibition Test -- NUTRIENT LIMITATION AND METAL TOXICITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MARINEPHYTOPLANKTON, DIMETHYLSULPHIDEAND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE:THE CLAW HYPOTHESIS AS A LAKATOSIANPROGRESSIVE PROBLEMSHIFT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION. |
2. FROM A GAP IN THE SULPHUR CYCLE TO A NEW RESEARCH AREA -- 3. LAKATOS' THEORY OF SCIENCE AND THE CLAW HYPOTHESISAS A PROGRESSIVE PROBLEMSHIFT IN THE GAIARESEARCH PROGRAMME2 -- 4. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE CLAW HYPOTHESIS -- 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- PERSPECTIVES ON MARINE PHYTOPLANKTONAS SOURCES OF NUTRITION AND BIOENERGY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ALGAE AS A SOURCE OF NUTRITION, THERAPEUTICSAND COSMETICS -- 2.1. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids -- 2.2. Therapeutics -- 2.3. Aquaculture Nutrition and Cosmetics -- 3. BIOENERGY -- 3.1. Algal Biodiesel -- 3.2. Algal-Hydrogen and Methane -- 4. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY -- 5. RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IMPACT OF PARASITIC FUNGI ON THE DIVERSITYAND FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGYOF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF FUNGAL PARASITES -- DIVERSITY OF FUNGAL PARASITE IN MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON -- IMPACT OF FUNGAL PARASITES ON MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- BACTERIAL |
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VECTORS IN DINOFLAGELLATECIGUATOXIN PRODUCTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY OF CIGUATERA FISH POISONING -- ASSOCIATED BACTERIAL FLORA AND THEIR ROLE INDINOFLAGELLATE TOXICITY -- VBNC VS CULTURABLE - IDENTIFICATION OF NONCULTURABLEORGANISMS -- BACTERIAL DIVERSITY OF TOXIN-PRODUCING DINOFLAGELLATES -- IDENTIFICATION OF PERSISTENT ASSOCIATION -IMPLICATIONS IN TOXIN PRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE PRIMARY PRODUCTION OF THE WHITE SEA -- REFERENCES -- HIGH ORDERLINESS OF PHYTOPLANKTONTAXONOMIC STRUCTURE AS REVEALEDBY SEVERAL APPROXIMATION MODELS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- Site Description -- Phytoplankton Data Acquisition and Processing -- Taxonomic Rank-Frequency Distributions -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES. |
BIO-MITIGATION AND BIOFUELPRODUCTION USING MICROALGAE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. MICROALGAE FOR CO2 MITIGATION AND BIOFUEL PRODUCTION -- Diatoms -- Green Algae -- Golden-Brown Algae -- Prymnesiophytes -- Eustigmatophytes -- Cyanobacteria -- 2. ALGAL CULTIVATION -- 2.1. Nutrition -- Nitrogen -- Phosphorus -- Other Elements -- 2.2. Culture Parameters -- Temperature -- Light -- pH -- Salinity -- Mixing -- 2.3. Cultivation System -- Open Ponds -- Closed Photobioreactors -- The Coupled Photobioreactor-Open Pond (Two-Stage)Cultivation System (Huntley and Redalje 2007) -- 3. MICROALGAL BIOMASS HARVESTING AND DRYING -- 4. CO2 BIO-MITIGATION BY MICROALGAE -- 4.1. Microalgal Species for Fixation of CO2 from Different Sources -- 4.3. Combined CO2 Bio-Mitigation with Biofuel Production -- 4.3.1. Biofuels from Microalgae -- Biodiesel -- Bio-Oil and Bio-Syngas -- Bio-Hydrogen -- 4.3.2. Biofuel Conversion -- Transesterification for Biodiesel Production (Chisti 2007) -- Gasification -- Pyrolysis -- Liquefaction -- 5. BIOCHEMICAL AND GENETIC ENGINEERING APPROACHESFOR ENHANCED MICROALGAL LIPID PRODUCTION -- 5.1. Biochemical Engineering Approaches -- 5.2. The Genetic Engineering Approach -- An Overview of the Global Lipid Biosynthesis Pathway -- Enhanced Lipid Production of Microalgae -- 5.3. The Transcriptional Factor Engineering Approach -- 6. ENHANCEMENT OF ECONOMIC FEASIBILITYOF BIOFUELS FROM MICROALGAE -- 6.1. Biorefinary: The High-Value Co-Product Strategy -- 6.2. Combination of Microalgal Cultivation with Wastewater Treatment -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- COCCOLITH FORMATION IN THE HAPTOPHYTA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM UNDERLYINGCOCCOLITH FORMATION -- 2.1. Emiliania huxleyi -- 2.2. Pleurochrysis carterae -- 3. BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES - FOCUSING ON RESEARCHON ACIDIC POLYSACCHARIDES -- 3.1. E. huxleyi -- 3.2. Pleurochrysis. |
4. MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES -- 4.1. E. huxleyi -- 4.2. Pleurochrysis -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE ECO-GENOMICS OF PHYTOPLANKTON:AN OUTLOOK ON THE FUTURE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BREAKTHROUGH: RECENT ADVANCES AND FULLGENOME SEQUENCES -- EVERYTHING IS NOT EVERYWHERE -- SCALE MATTERS: THE DISPERSAL-GENE FLOW PARADOXAND THE METACOMMUNITY VIEW -- THE 'EXTENDED PHENOTYPE' CONCEPT IN AQUATIC ECOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- MARINE PHYTOPLANKTONS AS A FOODOF SUSPENSION FEEDERS -- REFERENCES -- DELAYED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPYAS A SIMPLE AND RAPID MEASUREMENT TOOLFOR ACTIVE CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATIONS,PHYTOPLANKTON COMPOSITIONS AND A POSSIBLETOOL FOR MONITORING PHOTOSYNTHETICTRAITS OF |
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PHYTOPLANKTON -- REFERENCES -- RECENT TECHNIQUES IN MARINEPHYTOPLANKTON MONITORING -- INDEX. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that live in the ocean. Phytoplankton obtain energy through a process called photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface layer of an ocean, sea, lake or other body of water. This book provides current research on this very important marine plant species. |
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UNISA996695323603316 |
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Autore |
Swan |
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Standard Of Time. Or The Measuring-reed : Containing An Exact Chronological Computation Of The Years Of The World, (from The Creation Thereof, To The Time Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem By The Romans.) Relating The Various Mutations And Transactions Hapning Therein. Together With A Catalogue Of Such Kings And Princes That Then Reigned. Wherein Also The Hidden Mysteries Of Daniels 70. Weeks, And Other Prophecies, The Time Of Herods Reigne The Birth, Baptisme And Passion Of Our Saviour, Are Cleared And Explained, With Variety Of Other Memorable Passages Which Never Were Extant Before In Our English Tongue. By John Swan. B.D |
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