Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. The spring phytoplankton bloom. 2. The phycology of phytoplankton. 3. Habitat determinants of primary production in the sea. 4. Numerical models -- the standard form of theory in pelagic ecology. 5. The microbial loop -- bacteria, bacteriovores, and viruses in the marine pelagial. 6. The zoology of zooplankton. 7. Production ecology of marine zooplankton. 8. Population biology of zooplankton. 9. Biogeography of pelagic habitats. 10. Biome and province analysis of the oceans. 11. Adaptive complexes of mid--water organisms. 12. The fauna of deep--sea sediments. 13. Benthic community ecology. 14. Submarine hydrothermal vents. 15. Fisheries oceanography. 16. Ocean ecology and global climate change. References. Index.
Charlie Miller has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in biological oceanography for many years at Oregon State University. During those years, he has studied the zooplankton communities of the Oregon upwelling zone and Oregon estuaries, the pelagic ecology of the Gulf of Alaska, the life histories of planktonic copepods, and several varieties of population modeling.
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