Accession Number:

ADA604620

Title:

Plankton Production Biology

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Personal Author(s):

• Banse, Karl

Report Date:

2007-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

LONG-TERM GOALS I continue to investigate geographic and seasonal distributions of hydrographic, chemical, and planktological phenomena in the northern, central, and eastern Arabian Sea, including the continental shelf. Occasionally I comment on general oceanographic or ecological principles. The arranging for publication of translations of monographs by Russian-language authors continues. OBJECTIVES 1. To comment on the seeming controversy in ecology of bottom-up versus top down regulation of marine and terrestrial communities. 2. To study the ventilation of the upper thermocline in the northernmost Arabian Sea by winter convection. 3. To open windows to the Russian oceanographic literature by arranging for publication of translations of monographs by Russian-language authors.

Descriptors:

• *ARABIAN SEA
• *BIOLOGY
• *PLANKTON
• ECOLOGY
• GEOGRAPHY
• OCEANOGRAPHY
• PRODUCTION
• SEASONAL VARIATIONS
• THERMOCLINES

Subject Categories:

• Biology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE