Response of marine ecosystems to global change

Ecological impact of appendicularians

Gabriel Gorsky, M.j. Youngbluth, D. Deibel

444 pages, parution le 17/01/2006

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Résumé : Almost everything you wanted to know about appendicularians but were afraid to ask is discussed in this book or in the references herein. These diaphanous creatures are common in all the world's oceans but most people would not recognize them nor understand their roles in marine food webs. Although these free swimming tunicates are the most primitive chordates, having the smallest chordate genome known, they developed one of the most complex external food concentrating mucous structure and using tangential filtration they feed efficiently on sub-micron and micron sized particles. The nearly 7 known species are adapted to all the oceanic environments including the deep sea and make a significant contribution to what is called marine snow: slowly sedimenting marine particles and thus to the carbon cycling. §§Chapter after chapter reviews the latest findings in the fields of phylogenetics, diversity, reproduction, nutritional biology, population dynamics, carbon flux and predator-prey relationships.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Editions des archives contemporaines
Auteur(s)	Gabriel Gorsky, M.j. Youngbluth, D. Deibel
Parution	17/01/2006
Nb. de pages	444
Format	17.4 x 24.5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	860g
EAN13	9782847030297