| Preface | | xiii | |
| Contributors | | xv | |
| Technological Advances in the Study of Benthic Ecology | |
| The Importance of Technology in Benthic Research and Monitoring: Looking Back to See Ahead |
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| In Situ Measurement of Organism-Sediment Interaction: Rates of Burrow Formation, Abandonment and Sediment Oxidation, Reduction |
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| Reflections on Statistics, Ecology, and Risk Assessment |
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| Sediment Profile Imagery as a Benthic Monitoring Tool: Introduction to `Long-Term' Case History Evaluation (Galway Bay, West Coast of Ireland) |
| | 43 | (20) |
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| Imaging of Oxygen Distributions at Benthic Interfaces: A Brief Review |
| | 63 | (10) |
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| Biogenic Modification of Physical Properties | |
| A New Model of Bioturbation for a Functional Approach to Sediment Reworking Resulting from Macrobenthic Communities |
| | 73 | (14) |
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| The Role of Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in Influencing Macrofauna: Variations in Response |
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| Turbidites and Benthic Faunal Succession in the Deep Sea: An Ecological Paradox? |
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| 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 |
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| Population Consequences of Intermediate Disturbance: Recruitment, Browsing Predation, and Geochemistry |
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| Physical Energy Regimes, Seabed Dynamics, and Organism-Sediment Interactions Along an Estuarine Gradient |
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| Michelle Thompson Neubauer |
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| Scale-Dependent Recovery of the Benthos: Effects of Larval and Post-Larval Life Stages |
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| Ecological Fidelity of Molluscan Death Assemblages |
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| 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 |
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| The Biogeochemistry of Carbon in Continental Slope Sediments: The North Carolina Margin |
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| Mechanisms of Age-Dependent Bioturbation on the Bathyal California Margin: The Young and the Restless |
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| In Situ Effects of Organisms on Porewater Geochemistry in Great Lakes Sediments |
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| 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 |
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| Effects of Particle and Solute Transport on Rates and Extent of Remineralization in Bioturbated Sediments |
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| Sedimentary Food Resources and Digestive Strategies | |
| Two Roads to Sparagmos: Extracellular Digestion of Sedimentary Food by Bacterial Inoculation Versus Deposit-feeding |
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| In Vivo Characterization of the Gut Chemistry of Small Deposit-feeding Polychaetes |
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| The Role of Fecal Pellet Deposition by Leaf-eating Sesarmid Crabs on Litter Decomposition in a Mangrove Sediment (Phuket, Thailand) |
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| Feeding Processes of Bivalves: Connecting the Gut to the Ecosystem |
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| Index | | 401 | |