Deep-sea foodchains and the global carbon cycle

Abstract

Proceedings of this workshop, held in Texas 1991 are presented. The 24 papers are either regional, particularly from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, or are confined to subsets of organisms defined by size groupings or taxon: bacterial standing stock and natural assemblages; zooplankton; metazoan meiobenthos; benthic foraminifera; xenophyophores; lysianassoid amphipods; epibenthic megafauna; continental slope macroinfaunal benthos; demersal fishes; and the temperate abyssal benthic community. In some following papers, large-scale features are explored: benthic secondary production; metabolic potential; adenosine nucleotides as indicators of benthic metabolism; the relationship of surface pigment biomass to benthic community structure; benthic food web flows estimated using inverse methodology; and predicting community dynamics from food web structure. Lastly, sedimentological aspects are covered. Sixteen papers are abstracted separately in Ecological Abstracts (93L/08310, 08352, 08378-08386 and 98401-08405). -J.W.Cooper