Marine phytoplankton / / William T. Kersey and Samuel P. Munger, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 579.8/1776
• Soggetto topico: Marine phytoplankton
• Altri autori: KerseyWilliam T MungerSamuel P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 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 PHYTOPLANKTON -- REFERENCES -- RECENT TECHNIQUES IN MARINEPHYTOPLANKTON MONITORING -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Marine phytoplankton
• ISBN: 1-61470-212-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967585503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oceanography and ocean engineering series.