A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology
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A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology

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A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology

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The three main missions of any organism--growing, reproducing, and surviving--depend on encounters with food and mates, and on avoiding encounters with predators. Through natural selection, the behavior and ecology of plankton organisms have evolved to optimize these tasks. This book offers a mechanistic approach to the study of ocean ecology by exploring biological interactions in plankton at the individual level. The book focuses on encounter mechanisms, since the pace of life in the ocean intimately relates to the rate at which encounters happen.
Thomas Kiørboe examines the life and interactions of plankton organisms with the larger aim of understanding marine pelagic food webs. He looks at plankton ecology and behavior in the context of the organisms' immediate physical and chemical habitats. He shows that the nutrient uptake, feeding rates, motility patterns, signal transmissions, and perception of plankton are all constrained by nonintuitive interactions between organism biology and small-scale physical and chemical characteristics of the three-dimensional fluid environment.
Most of the book's chapters consist of a theoretical introduction followed by examples of how the theory might be applied to real-world problems. In the final chapters, mechanistic insights of individual-level processes help to describe broader population dynamics and pelagic food web structure and function.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780691190310
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface
  8. CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
  9. CHAPTER TWO: Random Wal kand Diffusion
  10. CHAPTER THREE: Diffusion and Advection
  11. CHAPTER FOUR: Particle Encounter by Advection
  12. CHAPTER FIVE: Hydromechanical Signals in the Plankton
  13. CHAPTER SIX: Zooplankto nFeeding Rates and Bioenergetics
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN: Population Dynamics and Interactions
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT: Structure and Function of Pelagic Food Webs
  16. References
  17. Index