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Weddell Sea Ecology

Results of EPOS European ”Polarstern“ Study

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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  1. Gotthilf Hempel

    1. Institut für Polarökologie, Universität Kiel, Kiel 1, Germany

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. The role of sea ice in structuring Antarctic ecosystems

    • Hajo Eicken
    Pages 3-13

  3. Community structure of the epipelagic zooplankton community under the sea-ice of the northern Weddell Sea

    • V. Siegel, A. Skibowski, U. Harm
    Pages 15-24

  4. Elemental composition of suspended matter in the Scotia-Weddell Confluence area during spring and summer 1988 (EPOS Leg 2)

    • F. Dehairs, L. Goeyens, N. Stroobants, S. Mathot
    Pages 25-33

  5. Respiratory electron transport activity in plankton of the Weddell and Scotia Seas during late spring — early summer: relationships with other biological parameters

    • Marta Estrada, Rosa Martinez, Sylvie Mathot
    Pages 35-42

  6. Abundance of Cryptophyceae and chlorophyll b-containing organisms in the Weddell-Scotia Confluence area in the spring of 1988

    • A. G. J. Buma, W. W. C. Gieskes, H. A. Thomsen
    Pages 43-52

  7. Loricate choanoflagellates of the Southern Ocean with new observations on cell division in Bicosta spinifera (Throndsen, 1970) from Antarctica and Saroeca attenuata Thomsen, 1979, from the Baltic Sea

    • Helge Abildhauge Thomsen, Jacob Larsen
    Pages 53-63

  8. Early summer distribution of Antarctic krill sexual development in the Scotia-Weddell region: a multivariate approach

    • Janine Cuzin-Roudy, Jean Philippe Labat
    Pages 65-74

  9. Krill diet affects faecal string settling

    • G. C. Cadée, H. González, S. B. Schnack-Schiel
    Pages 75-80

  10. The distribution and abundance of krill faecal material and oval pellets in the Scotia and Weddell Seas (Antarctica) and their role in particle flux

    • H. E. González
    Pages 81-91

  11. Top predators as indicators for ecosystem events in the confluence zone and marginal ice zone of the Weddell and Scotia seas, Antarctica, November 1988 to January 1989 (EPOS Leg 2)

    • Jan A. van Franeker
    Pages 93-102

  12. Quantitative distribution of the shelf and slope molluscan fauna (Gastropoda, Bivalvia) of the Eastern Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

    • Patrick M. Arnaud, Stefan Hain
    Pages 103-109

  13. Reproductive biology of caridean decapods from the Weddell Sea

    • M. Gorny, W. E. Arntz, A. Clarke, D. J. Gore
    Pages 111-120

  14. New results of the “EPOS” leg 3 cruise to Antarctica: Horizontal and vertical distribution of isopods (Crustacea) in the eastern Weddell Sea

    • Alfons Zimmermann, Angelika Brandt
    Pages 121-128

  15. Egg size and composition in Ceratoserolis (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Weddell Sea

    • Andrew Clarke, Deborah J. Gore
    Pages 129-134

  16. The primary structure and oxygen-binding properties of the single haemoglobin of the high-Antarctic fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt

    • Rossana D’Avino, Angela Fago, Andreas Kunzmann, Guido di Prisco
    Pages 135-140

  17. Haematological studies on Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt, a high-Antarctic fish with a single haemoglobin

    • Andreas Kunzmann, Angela Fago, Rossana D’Avino, Guido di Prisco
    Pages 141-145

  18. Review Dynamics of nutrients and phytoplankton, and fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and silicon in the Antarctic Ocean

    • Paul Tréguer, Guy Jacques
    Pages 149-162

  19. Influence of physical and biological processes on the concentration of O2 and CO2 in the ice-covered Weddell Sea in the spring of 1988

    • J. M. Bouquegneau, W. W. C. Gieskes, G. W. Kraay, A. M. Larsson
    Pages 163-170

  20. The Antarctic Coastal Current in the southeastern Weddell Sea

    • E. Fahrbach, G. Rohardt, G. Krause
    Pages 171-182
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Polarökologie, Universität Kiel, Kiel 1, Germany

    Gotthilf Hempel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Weddell Sea Ecology

  • Book Subtitle: Results of EPOS European ”Polarstern“ Study

  • Editors: Gotthilf Hempel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77595-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-77597-0Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-77595-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 333

  • Topics: Ecology, Zoology

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