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Ecological geography of the sea [[electronic resource] /] / Alan R. Longhurst
| Ecological geography of the sea [[electronic resource] /] / Alan R. Longhurst |
| Autore | Longhurst Alan R |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, MA, USA, : Academic Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (575 p.) |
| Disciplina | 577.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Marine ecology
Oceanography |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-70771-2
9786610707713 0-08-046557-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Toward an Ecological Geography of the Sea; The Progressive Exploration of Oceanic and Shelf Ecosystems; The Availability of Timely Global Oceanographic Data from Satellites; Internal Dynamics of Satellite-Observed Algal Blooms; Our New Understanding of the Role of Very Small Organisms; 2 Biogeographic Partition of the Ocean; Taxonomic Diversity: The Shifting Baseline of Biogeography; The Useful Results from 150 Years of Marine Biogeography; Biogeographic Regions of the Pelagos
Geographic Component of Benthic-Pelagic Coupling From Pristine to Modified Ecosystems; 3 Fronts and Pycnoclines: Ecological Discontinuities; Fronts and Frontal Systems; Oceanic Fronts and Eddy Streets; Shelf-Edge and Upwelling Fronts; Tidal Fronts and River Plumes of the Shelf Seas; The Ubiquitous "Horizontal Front" at the Shallow Pycnocline; 4 Physical Control of Ecological Processes; Ecological Consequences of Mesoscale Eddies and Planetary Waves; Stratification and Irradiance: The Consequences of Latitude; Regional and Latitudinal Resistance to Mixing in the Open Oceans Rule-Based Models of Ecological Response to External Forcing Case 1-Polar Irradiance-Mediated Production Peak; Case 2-Nutrient-Limited Spring Production Peak; Case 3-Winter-Spring Production with Nutrient Limitation; Case 4-Small-Amplitude Response to Trade Wind Seasonality; Case 5-Large-Amplitude Response to Monsoon-like Reversal of Trade Winds; Case 6-Intermittent Production at Coastal Divergences; Coastal Asymmetry, Geomorphology, and Tidal Forcing; 5 Nutrient Limitation: The Example of Iron; Nutrient Distribution and the Consequences of Differing Supply Ratios Regional Anomalies in Nutrient Limitation Models of Regional Nutrient Flux and Limitation; 6 Biomes: The Primary Partition; The Four Primary Biomes of the Upper Ocean; Polar Biome; Westerlies Biome; Trades Biome; Coastal Biome; 7 Provinces: The Secondary Compartments; Ecological Provinces in the Open Ocean; Ways of Testing Static Province Boundaries in the Open Ocean; A Statistical Test; Analytical Tests; Biogeographic Tests; Practicable and Useful Partitions in Coastal Seas; 8 Longer Term Responses: From Seasons to Centuries; Scales of External Forcing; Recurrent, ENSO-Scale Changes of State Multidecadal Trends and Changes Conclusion: Stable Partitions in a Varying Ocean?; 9 The Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Polar Biome; Boreal Polar Province (BPLR); Atlantic Arctic Province (ARCT); Atlantic Subarctic Province (SARC); Atlantic Westerly Winds Biome; North Atlantic Drift Province (NADR); Gulf Stream Province (GFST); North Atlantic Subtropical Gyral Province (NAST-E, NAST-W); Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea Province (MEDI); Atlantic Trade Wind Biome; North Atlantic Tropical Gyral Province (NATR); Caribbean Province (CARB); Western Tropical Atlantic Province (WTRA) Eastern Tropical Atlantic Province (ETRA) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458111703321 |
Longhurst Alan R
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| Burlington, MA, USA, : Academic Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ecological geography of the sea [[electronic resource] /] / Alan R. Longhurst
| Ecological geography of the sea [[electronic resource] /] / Alan R. Longhurst |
| Autore | Longhurst Alan R |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, MA, USA, : Academic Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (575 p.) |
| Disciplina | 577.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Marine ecology
Oceanography |
| ISBN |
1-280-70771-2
9786610707713 0-08-046557-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Toward an Ecological Geography of the Sea; The Progressive Exploration of Oceanic and Shelf Ecosystems; The Availability of Timely Global Oceanographic Data from Satellites; Internal Dynamics of Satellite-Observed Algal Blooms; Our New Understanding of the Role of Very Small Organisms; 2 Biogeographic Partition of the Ocean; Taxonomic Diversity: The Shifting Baseline of Biogeography; The Useful Results from 150 Years of Marine Biogeography; Biogeographic Regions of the Pelagos
Geographic Component of Benthic-Pelagic Coupling From Pristine to Modified Ecosystems; 3 Fronts and Pycnoclines: Ecological Discontinuities; Fronts and Frontal Systems; Oceanic Fronts and Eddy Streets; Shelf-Edge and Upwelling Fronts; Tidal Fronts and River Plumes of the Shelf Seas; The Ubiquitous "Horizontal Front" at the Shallow Pycnocline; 4 Physical Control of Ecological Processes; Ecological Consequences of Mesoscale Eddies and Planetary Waves; Stratification and Irradiance: The Consequences of Latitude; Regional and Latitudinal Resistance to Mixing in the Open Oceans Rule-Based Models of Ecological Response to External Forcing Case 1-Polar Irradiance-Mediated Production Peak; Case 2-Nutrient-Limited Spring Production Peak; Case 3-Winter-Spring Production with Nutrient Limitation; Case 4-Small-Amplitude Response to Trade Wind Seasonality; Case 5-Large-Amplitude Response to Monsoon-like Reversal of Trade Winds; Case 6-Intermittent Production at Coastal Divergences; Coastal Asymmetry, Geomorphology, and Tidal Forcing; 5 Nutrient Limitation: The Example of Iron; Nutrient Distribution and the Consequences of Differing Supply Ratios Regional Anomalies in Nutrient Limitation Models of Regional Nutrient Flux and Limitation; 6 Biomes: The Primary Partition; The Four Primary Biomes of the Upper Ocean; Polar Biome; Westerlies Biome; Trades Biome; Coastal Biome; 7 Provinces: The Secondary Compartments; Ecological Provinces in the Open Ocean; Ways of Testing Static Province Boundaries in the Open Ocean; A Statistical Test; Analytical Tests; Biogeographic Tests; Practicable and Useful Partitions in Coastal Seas; 8 Longer Term Responses: From Seasons to Centuries; Scales of External Forcing; Recurrent, ENSO-Scale Changes of State Multidecadal Trends and Changes Conclusion: Stable Partitions in a Varying Ocean?; 9 The Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Polar Biome; Boreal Polar Province (BPLR); Atlantic Arctic Province (ARCT); Atlantic Subarctic Province (SARC); Atlantic Westerly Winds Biome; North Atlantic Drift Province (NADR); Gulf Stream Province (GFST); North Atlantic Subtropical Gyral Province (NAST-E, NAST-W); Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea Province (MEDI); Atlantic Trade Wind Biome; North Atlantic Tropical Gyral Province (NATR); Caribbean Province (CARB); Western Tropical Atlantic Province (WTRA) Eastern Tropical Atlantic Province (ETRA) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784563003321 |
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Longhurst Alan R
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| Burlington, MA, USA, : Academic Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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