Indian ocean biogeochemical processes and ecological variability /
[Book]
Jerry D. Wiggert .. [et al.], editors
Washington, D.C. :
American Geophysical Union,
c2009
vii, 429 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
28 cm
Geophysical monograph series ;
185
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction to Indian Ocean biogeochemical processes and ecological variability : current understanding and emerging perspectives / Jerry D. Wiggert ... [et al.]-- Biophysical processes in the Indian Ocean / J.P. McCreary ... [et al.] -- What drives the biological productivity of the northern Indian Ocean? / S. Prasanna Kumar ... [et al.] -- Monsoons, islands, and eddies : their effects on phytoplankton in the Indian Ocean / John Marra and Thomas S. Moore II -- Impact of physical processes on chlorophyll distribution in the Bay of Bengal / P.N. Vinayachandran -- Wintertime convection and ventilation of the upper pycnocline in the northernmost Arabian Sea / Karl Banse and James R. Postel -- Bacterioplankton abundance and production in Indian Ocean regions / N. Ramaiah ... [et al.] -- Grazing processes and secondary production in the Arabian Sea : a simple food web synthesis with measurement constraints / Michael R. Landry -- Physical and biogeochemical controls of the phytoplankton seasonal cycle in the Indian Ocean : a modeling study / Vamara Koné ... [et al.] -- Dinitrogen fixation in the Indian Ocean / Margaret R. Mulholland and Douglas G. Capone -- Distribution and relative quantification of key genes involved in fixed nitrogen loss from the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone / Amal Jayakumar, S. Wajih A. Naqvi, and Bess B. Ward -- Nitrous oxide in the Indian Ocean / Hermann W. Bange -- Dissolved organic carbon in the carbon cycle of the Indian Ocean / Dennis A. Hanell-- Challenges for present and future estimates of anthropogenic carbon in the Indian Ocean / C. Goyet and F. Touratier -- Net community production in the northern Indian Ocean / V.V.S.S. Sarma -- Impact of regional Indian Ocean characteristics on the biogeochemical variability of settling particles / Daniela Unger and Tim Jennerjahn -- Carbon cycling in the Mesopelagic Zone of the central Arabian Sea : results from a simple model / Thomas R. Anderson and Vladimir A. Ryabchenko -- Rates and regulation of microbially mediated aerobic and anaerobic carbon oxidation reactions in continental margin sediments from the northeastern Arabian Sea (Pakistan Margin) / Gareth T. W Law ... [et al.]-- Is δ¹⁵N of sedimentary organic matter a good proxy for paleodenitrification in coastal waters of the eastern Arabian Sea? / Rajesh Agnihotri ... [et al.] -- Seasonal anoxia Over the Western Indian Continental Shelf / S. Wajih A. Naqvi ... [et al.] -- Unusual blooms of green Noctiluca miliaris (Dinophyceae) in the Arabian Sea during the winter monsoon / Helga do Rosario Gomes ... [et al.] -- Monsoonal and ENSO impacts on particle fluxes and the biological pump in the Indian Ocean / T. Rixen ... [et al.] -- Basin-wide modification of dynamical and biogeochemical processes by the positive phase of the Indian Ocean dipole during the SeaWiFS era / Jerry D. Wiggert, Jeŕôme Vialard, and Michael J. Behrenfeld -- Indian Ocean research : opportunities and challenges / Raleigh R. Hood, Jerry D. Wiggert, and S. Wajih A. Naqvi.
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"Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability provides a synthesis of current knowledge on Indian Ocean biogeochemistry and ecology and an introduction to new concepts and topical paradigm challenges. It also reports on the development of more extensive/frequent observational capacity being deployed in the Indian Ocean. This represents the first collection of syntheses that emphasize a basin-wide perspective, and the contributing authors include some of the most esteemed oceanographers and Indian Ocean experts in the world. The volume is derived from invited plenary talks that were presented at the initial Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) workshop held at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa, India, in October 2006. The volume discusses: The overlying physical processes set by monsoonal forcing and how these control biological production and variability ; Nutrient cycling and limitation ; Pelagic carbon cycling and air-sea exchange ; Benthic biogeochemistry and ecology ; The impact of climate and human activities on biogeochemistry and ecosystems. The readership for this book will consist of academic and governmental researchers interested in exploring how oceanographic, atmospheric, and hydrological processes combine to establish the environmental setting that supports and drives the pelagic system and which are especially relevant to understanding the complex biogeochemical and ecological interactions in the Indian Ocean."--Publisher's website.