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Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

Paperback

Series: Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Book 31

Environmental StudiesZoology

ISBN10: 0387970010
ISBN13: 9780387970011
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 22 1989
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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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