The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

The eastern tropical Pacific includes 28 million km2 of ocean between 23.5° N and S and
Central/South America and 140° W, and contains the eastern and equatorial branches of the …

For the past 3.8 billion years, the geochemistry of the Earth's surface-its atmosphere, waters
and exposed crust-has been determined by the presence of biota. Photosynthetic organisms …

THE mean of reported annual world fisheries catches for 1988-1991 (94.3 million t) was split
into 39 species groups, to which fractional trophic levels, ranging from 1.0 (edible algae) to …

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics provides a broad theoretical framework upon which
graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the …

H omo sapiens is only one of perhaps 5-30 million animal species on Earth (eg, Erwin
1982), yet it controls a disproportion-ate share of the planet's resources. Evidence of human …

We describe a new program for calculating algal class abundances from measurements of
chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments determined by high-performance liquid …

Few of us may ever live on the sea or under it, but all of us are making increasing use of it
either as a source of food and other materials, or as a dump. As our demands upon the …

Phytoplankton--the passively floating or weakly swimming plant life found in bodies of water--
is generally inconspicuous. It is of basic importance in lakes and seas, however, as the …

It would not have been possible for me to write the three editions of this book without a
double dose of extraordinary fortune: to have been part of the Woods Hole scientific …