ENGLISH

Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

By Jeffrey S. Levinton (auth.) , Glenn Lopez , Gary Taghon , Jeffrey Levinton (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1989
ISBN
978-0-387-97001-1, 978-1-4684-7671-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-7671-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16117381 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies 31
Edition
1
Pages
322\332
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Ecology; Zoology

Description

Deposit feeders, animals that derive nutrition from organic matter in sedimentary deposits, are dominant among the inhabitants of muds and, therefore, of the benthos of much of the ocean. In this volume the critical research problems pertaining to deposit feeders are identified and promising approaches for dealing with those problems are proposed. Interdisciplinary approaches are of utmost importance in the study of deposit feeders and their sedimentary environment, merging fields as disparate as nutritional physiology and sediment geochemistry. Among the topics presented are advances in theories of foraging and digestion, and new experimental approaches to study the potential foods, feeding behavior and physiology of animals that ingest sediment.

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