Island, ocean, and deep-sea biology : proceedings of the 34th European Marine biology Symposium, held in Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal, 13-17 September, 1999

The 34th European Marine Biology Symposium was held in Ponta Delgada, The Azores, between 13th and 17th September 1999. It was organised by the University of the Azores in association with the Municipal Museum of Funchal (Madeira), and the Plymouth Environment Research Centre (University of Plymouth, UK). The selected topics, dictated by the position of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, were: `Ecology and Evolution on Island Shores', `The Open Ocean', and `The Deep Ocean'. Each topic was introduced by a recognised expert of international reputation and these keynote reviews provide authoritative summaries of the current status of these very important topics in marine biology. The 35 papers which make up this volume bring new ideas and concepts relating to the functioning of marine systems extending from the intertidal, through the pelagic realm down to the deep sea. The book covers many aspects of the biology of marine organisms and will have wide interest to all those interested in the life of the world's oceans. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Thoughts on the ecology and evolution of the intertidal biota of the Azores and other Atlantic islands....Pages 3-17 A provisional classification of algal-characterised rocky shore biotopes in the Azores....Pages 19-25 Variability at different spatial scales of a coralligenous assemblage at Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, northwest Mediterranean)....Pages 27-36 Diversity, recruitment and competition on island shores at south-polar localities compared with lower latitudes: encrusting community examples....Pages 37-44 Are kelp holdfasts islands on the ocean floor? — indication for temporarily closed aggregations of peracarid crustaceans....Pages 45-54 A sponge diversity centre within a marine ‘island’....Pages 55-64 An offshore buoy as a small artificial island and a fish-aggregating device (FAD) in the Mediterranean....Pages 65-80 Periodic movement, recruitment and size-related distribution of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Solomon Islands....Pages 81-100 A ‘minimum stress inflexion’ in relation to environmental and biotic influences on the dynamics of subtidal encrusting communities?....Pages 101-109 Shell occupancy of the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus (Decapoda, Diogenidae) on São Miguel (Azores)....Pages 111-117 Direct and indirect effects of Littorina littorea (L.) on barnacles growing on mussel beds in the Wadden Sea....Pages 119-128 Age and growth, reproduction and diet of a sublittoral population of the rock goby Gobius paganellus (Teleostei, Gobiidae)....Pages 129-135 Luminous capabilities and life-history traits of the polychromatic ophiuroid Amphipholis squamata in two isolated populations from Oliveri-Tindari lagoon system, Sicily....Pages 137-144 Physical control of plankton population abundance and dynamics in intertidal rock pools....Pages 145-152 New records of brown algae (Phaeophyta) from the Azores....Pages 153-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Quantification of diel vertical migration by micronektonic taxa in the northeast Atlantic....Pages 161-179 Colonization of floating seaweed by pelagic and subtidal benthic animals in southwestern Iceland....Pages 181-189 Semper’s (zoanthid) larvae: pelagic life, parentage and other problems....Pages 191-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 A review of the distribution of hydrothermal vent communities along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: dispersal vs. environmental controls....Pages 201-216 The effect of water depth on bacterial numbers, thymidine incorporation rates and C:N ratios in northeast Atlantic surficial sediments....Pages 217-225 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Distribution of live benthic Foraminifera at three oceanographically dissimilar sites in the northeast Atlantic: preliminary results....Pages 227-238 Foraminiferan (Protozoa) epizoites on deep-water arcturids (Crustacea, Isopoda)....Pages 239-247 Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling?....Pages 249-260 Patterns in deep-sea macrobenthos at the continental margin: standing crop, diversity and faunal change on the continental slope off Scotland....Pages 261-271 Lipid profiles of Nematocarcinus gracilis a deep-sea shrimp from below the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone....Pages 273-279 Community structure of deep-sea demersal fish in the North Aegean Sea (northeastern Mediterranean)....Pages 281-296 Front Matter....Pages 297-297 Influence of light and nitrogen on the phlorotannin content of the brown seaweeds Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus ....Pages 299-305 Nutrification impacts on coral reefs from northern Bahia, Brazil....Pages 307-315 Stable isotope evidence of benthic microalgae-based growth and secondary production in the suspension feeder Cerastoderma edule (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the Marennes-Oléron Bay....Pages 317-329 Annual growth of the cockle Clinocardium ciliatum in the Norwegian Arctic (Svalbard area)....Pages 331-338 Distribution and abundance of co-occurring chthamalid barnacles Chthamalus montagui and Chthamalus stellatus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) on the southwest coast of Portugal....Pages 339-345 Predation by juvenile Platichthys flesus (L.) on shelled prey species in a bare sand and a drift algae habitat....Pages 347-355 Feast or famine for intertidal grazing molluscs: a mis-match between seasonal variations in grazing intensity and the abundance of microbial resources....Pages 357-367 Bioturbation as a mechanism for setting and maintaining levels of diversity in subtidal macrobenthic communities....Pages 369-377 Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in an environment with multiple gradients of physical disturbance, Manukau Harbour, New Zealand....Pages 379-391