Flows of Energy and Materials in Marine Ecosystems: Theory and Practice.

Abstract

One - Invited Papers.- The Importance of Measuring Fluxes in Marine Ecosystems.- Community Measures of Marine Food Networks and their Possible Applications.- Thermodynamics of the Pelagic Ecosystem: Elementary Closure Conditions for Biological Production in the Open Ocean.- The Structure of Aquatic Ecosystems and its Dependency on Environmental Conditions.- Eutrophication of a Coastal Marine Ecosystem - An Experimental Study Using the MERL Microcosms.- Oceanic Nutrient Cycles.- State-of-the-Art in the Measurement of Primary Production.- Functional Types of Marine Planktonic Primary Producers and their Relative Significance in the Food Web.- Measuring the Metabolism of the Benthic Ecosystem.- The Measurement of the Enthalpy of Metabolism of Marine Organisms.- Bacterial Production in the Marine Food Chain: The Emperor's New Suit of Clothes?.- Suspended Marine Bacteria as a Food Source.- The Biological Role of Detritus in the Marine Environment.- The Cycling of Organic Matter by Bacterioplankton in Pelagic Marine Ecosystems: Microenvironmental Considerations.- An Overview of Secondary Production in Pelagic Ecosystems.- The Quantitative Significance of Gelatinous Zooplankton as Pelagic Consumers.- Fish Production in Open Ocean Ecosystems.- Ecological Efficiency and Activity Metabolism.- Detrital Organic Fluxes Through Pelagic Ecosystems.- The Supply of Food to the Benthos.- Coupling the Sub-Systems - the Baltic Sea as a Case Study.- On the Relation of Primary Production to Grazing during the Fladen Ground Experiment 1976.- Two - Working Group Reports.- Studies on Marine Autotrophs: Recommendations for the 1980s.- Respiration.- Nutrient Cycling in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Ecosystems.- Excretion and Mineralisation Processes in the Open Sea.- Herbivory.- Detritivory.- Carnivory.- The Role of Free Bacteria and Bactivory.- Participants.