The marine plankton is regarded as drifting and floating organisms whose existence is independent of the sea bottom. To separate the plankton from the remainder of the marine community, production of plankton is examined. In offshore waters, and in the open oceans, the phytoplankton is important in production. There are two primary autotrophic forms of production occurring in the marine environment. Firstly there are the autotrophic bacteria which by relatively simple chemical reactions such as oxidations obtain energy to synthesize complex organic matter. The second source of autotrophic production is the photosynthetic activity of green plants. The methods of estimating primary phytoplankton production are described. The factors that affect the primary production are: light,temperature, salinity, nutrients, minor nutrients, and organic requirements.
The rate of primary production depending on the temperature and stratification is graphically represented. The methods for estimating the standing crop of phytoplankton and zooplankton is also reviewed.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Sub-annual fluorescence measurements of coral skeleton: relationship between skeletal luminescence and terrestrial humiclike substances
- Chapter 2
Biomarkers of meat and seafood intake: an extensive literature review
- Chapter 3
How planktonic microcrustaceans respond to environment and affect ecosystem: a functional trait perspective
- Chapter 4
Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome
- Chapter 5
Evaluation of nutrient stoichiometric relationships among ecosystem compartments of a subtropical treatment wetland. Do we have “Redfield wetlands”?
- Chapter 6
Rapid detection of Escherichia coli in beverages using genetically engineered bacteriophage T7
- Chapter 7
Basic geochemical characteristics of lacustrine rocks in the Neogene Kağızman–Tuzluca Basin, Northeastern Turkey
- Chapter 8
Inhibition of biofilm bacteria and adherent fungi from marine plankton cultures using an antimicrobial combination
- Chapter 9
Impacts of reduced inorganic N:P ratio on three distinct plankton communities in the Humboldt upwelling system
- Chapter 10
Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri
- Chapter 11
Identification to species level of live single microalgal cells from plankton samples with matrix-free laserdesorption ionization mass spectrometry
- Chapter 12
Contrasting plankton stoichiometry and nutrient regeneration in northern arctic and boreal lakes
- Chapter 13
Mesozooplankton biomass and copepod estimated production in a temperate estuary (Mondego estuary): effects of processes operating at different timescales
- Chapter 14
Plankton classification with high-throughput submersible holographic microscopy and transfer learning
- Chapter 15
Low shifts in salinity determined assembly processes and network stability of microeukaryotic plankton communities in a subtropical urban reservoir
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Marine Plankton.
Lars O. Dragsted
Lars O. Dragsted, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 30, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Lynn Vanhaecke
Lynn Vanhaecke, Department of Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, 9820, Merelbeke, Belgium
Lorraine Brennan
Lorraine Brennan, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Institute of Food & Health, University College Dublin, Belfield 4, Dublin, Ireland
Stefania Noerma
Stefania Noerman, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
Monika Nowrotek
Monika Nowrotek, Microbiology Unit, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Kossutha 6 Str., 40-844, Katowice, Poland
Alan L. Wright
Alan L. Wright, Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, Ft. Pierce, FL, 34945, USA
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