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Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. The spring phytoplankton bloom. 2. Thephycology of phytoplankton. 3. Habitat determinants of primaryproduction in the sea. 4. Numerical models -- the standard form oftheory in pelagic ecology. 5. The microbial loop -- bacteria,bacteriovores, and viruses in the marine pelagial. 6. The zoologyof zooplankton. 7. Production ecology of marine zooplankton. 8.Population biology of zooplankton. 9. Biogeography of pelagichabitats. 10. Biome and province analysis of the oceans. 11.Adaptive complexes of mid--water organisms. 12. The fauna ofdeep--sea sediments. 13. Benthic community ecology. 14. Submarinehydrothermal vents. 15. Fisheries oceanography. 16. Ocean ecologyand global climate change. References. Index.

About the Author

Charlie Miller has taught both undergraduate and graduate coursesin biological oceanography for many years at Oregon StateUniversity. During those years, he has studied the zooplanktoncommunities of the Oregon upwelling zone and Oregon estuaries, thepelagic ecology of the Gulf of Alaska, the life histories ofplanktonic copepods, and several varieties of population modeling.

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