Oceanography And Marine Biology

A good quality annual review series that provides an important service to the sciences for both the general and the specialist reader. Oceanography and Marine Biology has succeeded in producing one admirably for more than 35 years. The quality of the paper, the printing and the presentation is excellent.--Times Higher Education Supplement.

Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS IN MARGINAL ICE ZONES -- INTRODUCTION -- PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE MARGINAL ICE ZONE -- FACTORS INFLUENCING PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH IN THE MARGINAL ICE ZONE -- MARGINAL ICE ZONES OF THE ARCTIC -- Bering and Chuckchi Seas -- From Strait and Barents Sea -- MARGINAL ICE ZONES OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN -- Weddell Sea -- Ross Sea -- IMPACT OF ICE-ALGAL COMMUNITY ON ICE-EDGE PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS -- PARTITIONING OF PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY WITHIN MARGINAL ICE ZONES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SAMPLING AND THE DESCRIPTION OF SPATIAL PATTERN IN MARINE ECOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- TERMS AND CONCEPTS -- ESTIMATING ABUNDANCE -- QUESTIONS, SCALE AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- ACCURACY AND PRECISION -- Accuracy and methods -- PRECISION -- OPTIMIZATION AND PILOT STUDIES -- The size and number of sampling units -- Stratified sampling -- Multi-stage sampling -- POWER ANALYSIS -- Power analysis for planning -- Post hoc power analysis -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- SPATIAL PATTERN -- DETECTING NON-RANDOM PATTERN -- Measures from sample units -- Indices based on distances between orga…