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Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems (Paperback, New)
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Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems (Paperback, New)
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Respiration represents the major area of ignorance in our
understanding of the global carbon cycle. In spite of its obvious
ecological and biogeochemical importance, most oceanographic and
limnological textbooks invariably deal with respiration only
superficially and as an extension of production and other
processes. The objective of this book is to fill this gap and to
provide the first comprehensive review of respiration in the major
aquatic systems of the biosphere. The introductory chapters review
the general importance of respiration in aquatic systems, and deal
with respiration within four key biological components of aquatic
systems: bacteria, algae, heterotrophic protists, and zooplankton.
The aim of this first part is to provide the backbone for the
analysis and interpretation of ecosystem-level respiration in a
variety of aquatic environments. The central chapters of the book
review respiration in major aquatic ecosystems including freshwater
wetlands, lakes and rivers, estuaries, coastal and open ocean and
pelagic ecosystems, as well as respiration in suboxic environments.
For each major ecosystem, the corresponding chapter provides a
synthesis of methods used to assess respiration, outlines the
existing information and data on respiration, discusses its
regulation and link to biotic and abiotic factors, and finally
provides regional and global estimates of the magnitude of
respiration. The final chapter provides a general synthesis of the
information and data provided in the different sections, and
further attempts to place aquatic respiration within the context of
the global carbon budget.
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