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The authors of the 25 papers in this volume present their state-of-the-art approaches to quantifying the mechanisms by which the `rain' of biogenic debris nourishes deep ocean life.
Prominent deep sea ecologists, geochemists and modelers address relationships between data and models of carbon fluxes and food chains in the deep ocean. An attempt is made to estimate the fate of carbon in the deep sea on a global scale by summing up the utilization of organic matter among all the populations of the abyssal biosphere. Comparisons are made between these ecological approaches and estimates of geochemical fluxes based on sediment trapping, one-dimensional geochemical models and horizontal (physical) input from continental margins.
Planning interdisciplinary enterprises between geochemists and ecologists, including new field programs, are summarized in the final chapter. The summary includes a list of the important gaps in understanding which must be addressed before the role of the deep-sea biota in global-scale processes can be put in perspective.
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Book Title: Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle
Editors: Gilbert T. Rowe, Vita Pariente
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2452-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1608-4Published: 31 January 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5082-1Published: 29 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2452-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 400
Topics: Geochemistry, Evolutionary Biology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Oceanography