Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 January 2005
- ISBN 9780198527084
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 246x190x17 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures & tables 0
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Short description:
Respiration in aquatic ecosystems is one of the major, and also least understood, components of the global carbon cycle; currently there is no textbook that reviews and analyses the extant information on respiration in natural aquatic systems. This book represents a thorough synthesis and in-depth analysis of the current state of understanding of respiration in aquatic systems, as well as of the main scientific questions and challenges that face this particular field. This work is not intended as an introductory textbook, but rather is aimed at advanced graduate students and researchers actively working in the fields of aquatic ecology, biological oceanography, and biogeochemistry in general.
MoreLong description:
Respiration represents the major area of ignorance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle. In spite of its obvious ecological and biogeochemical importance, most oceanographic and limnological textbooks invariably deal with respiration only superficially and as an extension of production and other processes. The objective of this book is to fill this gap and to provide the first comprehensive review of respiration in the major aquatic systems of the biosphere. The introductory chapters review the general importance of respiration in aquatic systems, and deal with respiration within four key biological components of aquatic systems: bacteria, algae, heterotrophic protists, and zooplankton. The aim of this first part is to provide the backbone for the analysis and interpretation of ecosystem-level respiration in a variety of aquatic environments. The central chapters of the book review respiration in major aquatic ecosystems including freshwater wetlands, lakes and rivers, estuaries, coastal and open ocean and pelagic ecosystems, as well as respiration in suboxic environments. For each major ecosystem, the corresponding chapter provides a synthesis of methods used to assess respiration, outlines the existing information and data on respiration, discusses its regulation and link to biotic and abiotic factors, and finally provides regional and global estimates of the magnitude of respiration. The final chapter provides a general synthesis of the information and data provided in the different sections, and further attempts to place aquatic respiration within the context of the global carbon budget.
Overall, Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems is an inspiration for those in the field to expand their own studies, to students to find out more about the specific role of respiration in global carbon fluxes and for scientists, such as myself, who have not previously considered the community and global implications of respiratory measurements.
Table of Contents:
Respiration in aquatic ecosystems: history and background
Ecophysiology of microbial respiration
Respiration in aquatic photolithotrophs
Respiration in aquatic protists
Zooplankton respiration
Respiration in wetland ecosystems
Respiration in lakes
Estuarine respiration: an overview of benthic, pelagic and whole system respiration
Respiration and its measurement in surface marine waters
Respiration in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the ocean
Respiration in coastal benthic communities
Suboxic respiration in the oceanic water column
Incorporating plankton respiration in models of aquatic ecosystem function
The global significance of respiration in aquatic ecosystems: from single cells to the biosphere
