The Marine Microbial Food Web : Competition and Defence As Shaping Forces from Ecosystem to Genes

• Autore: Thingstad Tron Frede
• Pubblicazione: Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Disciplina: 579.177
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene -- 1.1 The Physical and Chemical Environment of the MMFW -- 1.2 Competitive and Defensive Characteristics of Biological Actors in the MMFW -- 1.2.1 Prokaryotes -- 1.2.2 Protists -- 1.2.2.1 Flagellates -- 1.2.2.2 Diatoms -- 1.2.2.3 Ciliates -- 1.2.3 Metazoan Top Predators on the MMFW -- 1.2.3.1 Copepods -- 1.2.3.2 Euphausiids „(Krill) -- 1.2.3.3 Appendicularians -- 1.2.3.4 Rotifers -- 1.2.4 Viruses -- 1.3 New Methods and New Concepts: Paradigm Shifts in Our Understanding of the MMFW -- References -- Chapter 2 Control Mechanism in Food Chains and Food Webs -- 2.1 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control in Food Chain -- 2.2 Biomass Versus Growth Rate Limitation -- 2.3 New, Regenerated, and Export Production. What Determines NT? -- 2.4 Using an Idealized Mathematical Model to Illustrate the Effects of Food Chain Closure, Stability, Recycling, Defence, Fitness, and Trade-Off -- 2.4.1 Properties of the Steady State -- 2.4.2 Food Web Closure -- 2.4.3 Biomasses and Mass Transfer Rates Scale Differently with Nutrient Content NT -- 2.4.4 Transients and Stability -- 2.5 Fitness and Trade-Off -- 2.6 Monod and Droop Models for Microbial Growth -- 2.7 Competition and Coexistence -- 2.7.1 Bottom-Up-Driven Coexistence -- 2.7.2 Top-Down-Driven Coexistence -- 2.7.3 Pentagon Structures -- 2.8 KtW as a Factor in the Evolution of Present-Day MMFW -- References -- Chapter 3 The Microscale: Microbial Movement and Encounters -- 3.1 α-Parameters. and Encounter Kernels -- 3.1.1 What Is the Secret Behind the Diatom Success? -- 3.1.2 Predator and Prey Interactions -- 3.2 Temperature Sensitivity of the MMFW -- References -- Chapter 4 MinMod, a Minimum Model for the MMFW -- 4.1 Model Structure and Philosophy. ; 4.2 Model Behaviour -- 4.2.1 Food Web Closure, Characteristic Time Scales and the Difference Between Drivers and Variables -- 4.2.2 The Cascading Effect from Copepods -- 4.2.3 Bacteria-Diatom. Balance and Competition for Mineral Nutrients -- 4.3 The Mathematical Formulation -- 4.3.1 The Steady States -- 4.3.1.1 Different States According to Diatom Status -- 4.3.1.2 Steady States with C-Limited. Bacteria -- 4.3.2 The Transients -- 4.4 The Importance of Model 'Transparency' -- References -- Chapter 5 Prokaryote Diversity and Flux Partitioning -- 5.1 On Fitness, Species Dominance and Evolutionary Stable’Communities -- 5.2 The Structuring Effect of Prokaryote Predator Defence -- 5.3 The Structuring Effect of Defence Against Viruses -- 5.3.1 Virus Abundance and Flux Partitioning -- 5.3.2 Viruses, Diversity and Flux Partitioning -- 5.3.3 Host-Virus. Arms Races and Experimental Evolution -- 5.4 Species and Strain Diversity, and Flux Partitioning in a One-Species Host-Virus-Predator System -- 5.4.1 Diversity, and Flux Partitioning in a Mixed Prokaryote Community -- 5.5 A Summarizing Hypothesis for How Trade-offs. Determines Prokaryote Diversity -- References -- Chapter 6 The Role of Competition and Defence Microbial Genome Organization -- 6.1 Prokaryote Species in Natural Habitats Are not Clonal -- 6.2 An Enigmatic Outlier? The Huge Genome of Dinoflagellates -- References -- Chapter 7 Element Cycles and Ecological Stoichiometry of the MMFW -- 7.1 Ocean Nutrient Content and N : P Ratio -- 7.2 The Si-Cycle -- 7.3 The C-Cycle -- 7.4 Genetic Consequences of Nutrient Limitation -- References -- Chapter 8 Basin Scale Drivers of the MMFW -- 8.1 The Arctic -- 8.1.1 Physical Conditions -- 8.1.2 The Arctic Microbial Food Web -- 8.2 The Mediterranean Sea -- 8.2.1 Circulation and Oligotrophication -- 8.2.2 Why Is the Mediterranean P-Limited?. ; 8.2.3 Using the Oligotrophication Gradient to Explore the Pelagic Carbon Cycle -- 8.3 Iron Limitation and HNLC Regions -- References -- Chapter 9 MMFW in the Ocean's Interior -- 9.1 Missing Energy Source or Technical Measurement Problems? -- 9.2 Protistan Predators in the Ocean's Interior -- 9.3 Prokaryote Diversity and Viruses in the Aphotic Ocean -- 9.4 Connections to the Upper Part of the Pelagic Food Web -- References -- Chapter 10 Power Laws and Fractal Properties -- 10.1 Equal Mass in Each Decadal Size Class in the Food Chain? -- 10.2 Size and Metabolic Rates -- References -- Chapter 11 Applied Aspects -- 11.1 Marine Pathogens, A Product of Coincidental Evolution? -- 11.2 Bioremediation -- 11.3 Eutrophication -- 11.3.1 Food Web Effects: The Example of Shallow Lake Restoration -- 11.3.2 Coastal Eutrophication. The Interplay Between Land Use, Runoff and Hydrography -- 11.3.3 Climate Change -- References -- Chapter 12 Some Aspects of MMFW That Are Not Included in MinMod -- 12.1 Complications in the Left Pentagon -- 12.1.1 Mixotroph Protists -- 12.1.2 Picoautotrophs -- 12.1.3 Coccolithophores -- 12.2 Complications in the Right Pentagon -- 12.2.1 Dinoflagellates -- 12.3 Alternative Pathways? Bypass and Tunnelling -- References -- Chapter 13 Other Perspectives -- 13.1 Similarities and Differences in Terrestrial Systems -- 13.2 A Final Comment: Competition and Defence from an Anthropocentric Perspective -- References -- Appendix -- A Matlab Script Files -- Reference -- Index -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Marine Microbial Food Web
• ISBN: 1-394-25165-3; 1-394-25164-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911019357603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II