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Organism-sediment interactions

In 1998, Scientists representing more than fifty international research organizations met to seek answers to environmental questions regarding pollution, ocean cleansing, and the impact that changes in sediment layers have on benthic organisms and the ecosystems that depend on them. Their findings consider these topics, identify opportunities for future investigations, and promote active partnerships between federal regulatory agencies and the academic community in order to preserve and enhance natural aquatic resources.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Published for the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research by the University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., ©2001
Conference papers and proceedings
xxi, 403 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
9781570034312, 1570034311
47927758
Prefacexiii
Contributorsxv
Technological Advances in the Study of Benthic Ecology
The Importance of Technology in Benthic Research and Monitoring: Looking Back to See Ahead
1(18)
Donald C. Rhoads
Roger Ward
Josephine Y. Aller
Robert C. Aller
In Situ Measurement of Organism-Sediment Interaction: Rates of Burrow Formation, Abandonment and Sediment Oxidation, Reduction
19(14)
Robert J. Diaz
G. Randy Cutter, Jr.
Reflections on Statistics, Ecology, and Risk Assessment
33(10)
Joseph D. Germano
Sediment Profile Imagery as a Benthic Monitoring Tool: Introduction to `Long-Term' Case History Evaluation (Galway Bay, West Coast of Ireland)
43(20)
B. F. Keegan
D. C. Rhoads
J. D. Germano
M. Solan
R. Kennedy
I. O'Connor
B. O'Connor
D. McGrath
P. Dinneen
S. Acevedo
S. Young
A. Grehan
J. Costelloe
Imaging of Oxygen Distributions at Benthic Interfaces: A Brief Review
63(10)
Bettina Koenig
Gerhard Holst
Ronnie N. Glud
Michael Kuehl
Biogenic Modification of Physical Properties
A New Model of Bioturbation for a Functional Approach to Sediment Reworking Resulting from Macrobenthic Communities
73(14)
Frederique Francois
Jean-Christophe Poggiale
Jean-Pierre Durbec
Georges Stora
The Role of Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in Influencing Macrofauna: Variations in Response
87(14)
S. F. Thrush
V. J. Cummings
J. E. Hewitt
G. A. Funnell
M. O. Green
Turbidites and Benthic Faunal Succession in the Deep Sea: An Ecological Paradox?
101(18)
David K. Young
Michael D. Richardson
Kevin B. Briggs
Response of Benthos to Sedimentary Disturbances, Biological and Paleoecological Indicators of Environmental Properties and Processes
Organism-Sediment Relations at Multiple Spatial Scales: Implications for Community Structure and Successional Dynamics
119(22)
Roman N. Zajac
Population Consequences of Intermediate Disturbance: Recruitment, Browsing Predation, and Geochemistry
141(18)
David S. Wethey
Sara M. Lindsay
Sarah A. Woodin
Roberta L. Marinelli
Physical Energy Regimes, Seabed Dynamics, and Organism-Sediment Interactions Along an Estuarine Gradient
159(22)
Linda C. Schaffner
Timothy M. Dellapenna
Elizabeth K. Hinchey
Carl T. Friedrichs
Michelle Thompson Neubauer
Mary E. Smith
Steven A. Kuehl
Scale-Dependent Recovery of the Benthos: Effects of Larval and Post-Larval Life Stages
181(18)
Robert B. Whitlatch
Andrew M. Lohrer
Simon F. Thrush
Ecological Fidelity of Molluscan Death Assemblages
199(24)
Susan M. Kidwell
Biogeochemical Process, Elemental and Contaminant Cycling in the Bioturbated Zone
The Influence of Mangrove Biomass and Production on Biogeochemical Processes in Tropical Macrotidal Coastal Settings
223(20)
Daniel M. Alongi
The Biogeochemistry of Carbon in Continental Slope Sediments: The North Carolina Margin
243(20)
Neal Blair
Lisa Levin
David DeMaster
Gayle Plaia
Chris Martin
William Fornes
Carrie Thomas
Robin Pope
Mechanisms of Age-Dependent Bioturbation on the Bathyal California Margin: The Young and the Restless
263(16)
Craig R. Smith
David J. DeMaster
William L. Fornes
In Situ Effects of Organisms on Porewater Geochemistry in Great Lakes Sediments
279(18)
Frederick M. Soster
Gerald Matisoff
Peter L. McCall
John A. Robbins
The Effect of Burial on Shell Preservation and Epibiont Cover in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas Shelf and Slope Environments After Two Years: An Experimental Approach
297(18)
Karla M. Parsons-Hubbard
Eric N. Powerll
George M. Staff
W. Russell Callender
Carlton E. Brett
Sally E. Walker
Effects of Particle and Solute Transport on Rates and Extent of Remineralization in Bioturbated Sediments
315(20)
R. C. Aller
J. Y. Aller
P. F. Kemp
Sedimentary Food Resources and Digestive Strategies
Two Roads to Sparagmos: Extracellular Digestion of Sedimentary Food by Bacterial Inoculation Versus Deposit-feeding
335(14)
Lawrence M. Mayer
Peter A. Jumars
Michael J. Bock
Yves-Alain Vetter
Jill L. Schmidt
In Vivo Characterization of the Gut Chemistry of Small Deposit-feeding Polychaetes
349(20)
Michael J. Ahrens
Glenn R. Lopez
The Role of Fecal Pellet Deposition by Leaf-eating Sesarmid Crabs on Litter Decomposition in a Mangrove Sediment (Phuket, Thailand)
369(16)
Erik Kristensen
Randi Pilgaard
Feeding Processes of Bivalves: Connecting the Gut to the Ecosystem
385(16)
Jeffrey S. Levinton
J. Evan Ward
Sandra E. Shumway
Shirley M. Baker
Index401
Proceedings of a symposium/workshop held in October 1998