Screen LibraryEcology of marine deposit feeders
Deposit feeders, animals that derive nutrition from organic matter in sedimentary deposits, are dominant among the inhabitants of muds and, therefore, of the benthos of much of the ocean. In this volume the critical research problems pertaining to deposit feeders are identified and promising approac...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lecture notes on coastal and estuarine studies ;
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/LN031 |
| Summary: |
Deposit feeders, animals that derive nutrition from organic matter in sedimentary deposits, are dominant among the inhabitants of muds and, therefore, of the benthos of much of the ocean. In this volume the critical research problems pertaining to deposit feeders are identified and promising approaches for dealing with those problems are proposed. Interdisciplinary approaches are of utmost importance in the study of deposit feeders and their sedimentary environment, merging fields as disparate as nutritional physiology and sediment geochemistry. Among the topics presented are advances in theories of foraging and digestion, and new experimental approaches to study the potential foods, feeding behavior and physiology of animals that ingest sediment. |
| Item Description: | "This book is the product of a workshop ... held at the Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 20-22, 1985"--Page ix. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118669389 (electronic bk.) 111866938X (electronic bk.) 9781468476712 (electronic bk.) 1468476718 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QH541 |
| CLC: | Q178.53 |