Biology of benthic organisms
- Oxford : Pergamon Press, c1977
- xxxiii, 630 p.
Foreword. -- Opening Address. -- List of Participants. -- Previous Symposia. -- Daily Variation in Dichelopandalus Bonnieri (Caullery) as a Component of the Epibenthos. -- Community Structures of Soft-bottom Macrofauna in Different Parts of the Baltic. -- A Drop-trap Investigation of the Abundance of Fish in Very Shallow Water in the Askö Area, Northern Baltic Proper. -- Results and Problems of an "Unsuccessful" Benthos Cage Predation Experiment (Western Baltic). -- The Importance of being a 'Littoralf Nauplius. -- Physiological Measurements on Estaurine Bivalve Molluscs in the Field. -- Variability of Growth Rate of Macoma balthioa (1.) in the Wadden Sea in Relation to Availability of Food. -- Studies on Anaerobic Nitrogen Fixation in the Sediments of Two Scottish Sea Lochs. -- Production Primaire Saisonniere du Microphytobenthos des Sables Envases en Baie de Concarneau. -- Modiolus Modiolus (L.) - An Autecological Study. -- Distribution and Maintenance of a Lanice conchilega Association in the Weser Estuary (FRG), with Special Reference to the Suspension-Feeding Behavior of Lanice conchilega. -- Le Macrobenthos des Fonds Meubles de la Manche: Distribution Generale et Ecologie. -- Colonisation et Distribution Spatiale des Copepodes dans des Lagunes Semi-artificielles. -- Recrutement et Succession du Benthos Rocheux Sublittoral. -- Annual Macrofauna Production of a Soft-bottom in the Northern Baltic Proper. -- Evolution dans les Temps des Peuplements des Sables Envases en Baie de Concarneau (Bretagne). -- Distribution of Benthic Phyto- and Zoocoenoses along a Light Gradient in a Superficial Marine Cave. -- Bionomie Benthique du Plateau Continental des Iles Kerguelen. 8. Variations Spatiales et Temporelles dans le Peuplement des Vases a Spicules. -- Some Observations on the Relative Abundance of Species in a Benthic Community. -- The Polychaete Eulalia viridis (O.F. Müller) as an Element in the Energy Dynamics of Intertidal Mussel Clumps. -- A Diving Survey of Strangford Lough: The Benthic Communities and Their Relation to Substrate - A Preliminary Account. -- Reproductive Strategies of the Winkle Littorina rudis in Relation to Population Dynamics and Size Structure. -- Structural Features of a North Adriatic Benthic Community. -- Structure of the Abyssal Macrobenthic Community in the Rockall Trough. -- Ecology of the Pogonophore Siboglinum fiordieum Webb in a Shallow-water Fjord Community. -- The Re-establishment of an Amphiura filiformis Population in the Inner Part of the German Bight. -- An Ecophysiological Approach to the Microdistribution of Meiobenthic Oligochaeta, I, Phallodrilus monospermathecus(Tubificidae) from a Subtropical Beach at Bermuda. -- Phosphoglucoisomerase Allele Frequency Data in Mytilus edulis from Irish Coastal Sites: Its Ecological Significance. -- An "In Situ" Study of Primary Production and the Metabolism of a Baltic Fuous vesiculosus-Community. -- Reproductive Strategy in Two British Species of Alcyonium. -- Observations on the Behavior and Distribution of Virgularia mirabilis (Coelenterata: Pennatulacea) in Holyhead Harbor, Anglesey. -- Meiobenthic Subcommunity Structure: Spatial vs. Temporal Variability. -- Habitat Area and Development of Marine Epibenthic Communities. -- Quantitative Survey of Hard-bottom Communities in a Baltic Archipelago. -- Aspects of the Ecology of Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt,in the Solent Region of the British Isles. I. The Growth Cycle and Epiphytes. -- The Effect of Depth on Populations of Laminaria hyperborea. -- Sublittoral Transects in the Menai Straits and Milford Haven. -- Epibenthic Assemblages as Indicators of EnvironmentalConditions. -- Recherches sur le Regime Alimentaire et le Comportement Pre'dateur des Decapodes Benthiques de la Pente Continentale de l'Atlantique Nordoriental (Golfe de Gascogne et Maroc). -- Feedback and Structure in Deposit~feeding Marine Benthic Communities. -- The Role of Physical and Biological Factors in the Distribution and Stability of Rocky Shore Communities. -- Meiofaunal Community Structure and Vertical Distribution: A Comparison of Some Co. Down Beaches. -- Etude Comparative de L'Efficacite de Deux Bernes et dfune Suceuse en Fonction de la Nature du Fond. -- Organization in Simple Communities: Observations on the Natural History of Hyale nilssoni (Amphipoda) in High Littoral Seaweeds. -- Dynamics and Production of Pectinaria koreni in Kiel Bay, West Germany. -- The effects of Storms on the Dynamics of Shallow Water Benthic Associations. -- Pachycerianthus multiplicatus - Biotope or Biocoenosis. -- On the Ecology of a Suspension Feeding Benthic Community: Filter Efficiency and Behavior. -- Strategies of Energy Transfer from Marine Macrophytes to Consumer Levels: The Posidonia oceanioa Example. -- The Benthic Ecology of Some Shetland Voes. -- Predation Pressure and Community Structure of an Intertidal Soft-bottom Fauna. -- Zonation in Deep-sea Gastropods: The Importance of Biological Interactions to Rates of Zonation. -- Molluscan Colonization of Different Sediments on Submerged Platforms in the Western Baltic Sea. -- Epifaunal Ecology of Intertidal Algae. -- The Hermit Crab Microbiocoenosis - The Role of Mobile Secondary Hard-bottom Elements in a North Adriatic Benthic Community. -- Sub-littoral Community Structure of Oxwich Bay, South Wales in Relation to Sedimentological, Physical Oceanographic and Biological Parameters. -- On the Shapes of Passive Suspension Feeders. -- The Structure and Seasonal Fluctuations of Phytal Marine Nematode Associations on the Isles of Scilly. -- Dissolved Organics in the Nutrition of Benthic Invertebrates. -- Studies on the Shallow, Sublittoral Epibenthos of Langstone Harbor, Hampshire, Using Settlement Panels. -- Modification of Association and Swarming in North Adriatic Mysidaoea in Relation to Habitat and Interacting Species. -- Predator-prey Interactions Between the Crab Pilumnus hirtellus(leach) and the Brittle Star Ophiothrix quinquemaculata on a Mutual Sponge Substrate. -- Analysis of Ecological Equivalents among Littoral Fish.
Biology of Benthic Organisms contains papers presented at the 11th European Symposium on Marine Biology, held at Galway, Ireland in October 1976. The collection contains 63 papers discussing the biological aspects of benthic organisms. The authors, mostly marine biologists, provide articles discussing their studies of marine life from different bodies of water from around the world. Topics on community structures of soft-bottom macrofauna in different parts of the Baltic; studies on anaerobic nitrogen fixation in the sediments of two Scottish sea-lochs; distribution of benthic phyto- and zoocoenoses along a light gradient in a superficial marine cave; and structural features of a North Adriatic benthic community are discussed in detail. Marine biologists, botanists, zoologists, and biologists will find the book invaluable.