Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

This book represents an outgrowth of an interdisciplinary session held at the Seventh International Estuarine Research Federation Conference held at Virginia Beach, Virginia, OCLober 1983. At that meeting, the participants agreed to contribute to and develop a monograph entitled "Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics" by inviting an expanded group of authors to contribute chapters on this theme. The emphasis would be to review and summarize the considerable body of knowledge that has accumulated over the last decade or so on the fundamental role tidal mixing plays in energetic shallow seas and estuaries in stimulating and controlling biological production. We have attempted to provide a mix of contributions, composed of reviews of the state-of-the-art, reports on current research activi ties, summaries of the design and testing of a new generation of innovative instruments for biological and chemical sampling and sorting, and some imaginative ideas for future experiments on stimulated mixing in continental shelf seas. We encouraged the contributors to present critical and thought provoking assessments of current wisdom specifying the sorts of techniques and observational strategies needed to validate the various hypotheses linking physical structure, mixing and circulation to plankton biomass and production. We hope this volume will appeal to incoming research students and established scholars alike. We certainly have enjoyed working with all the authors in compiling this book. We thank the numerous scientists who have served as reviewers, P. Boisvert for typing the manuscripts and W. Bellows for proofreading."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Coastal and Estuarine Studies, 17
Release date:	July 1986
First published:	1986
Editors:	Malcolm J. Bowman • Clarice M. Yentsch • William T Peterson
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	502
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-96346-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN:	0-387-96346-4
Barcode:	9780387963464

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