Marine Ecology – A comprehensive, integrated Treatise on Life in Oceans and Coastal Waters.

 

It is a great pleasure for Inter-Research to herewith present in the form of open access the series “Marine Ecology” published by Wiley & Sons from 1970 to 1984. Recently, Wiley & Sons graciously transferred the copyright to Otto Kinne.

 

This series was planned, organized, contributed to and edited by Otto Kinne. It is the first attempt in history to summarize and evaluate all essential information, available at the time of publication, on life in oceans and coastal waters.

 

While all contributions are integrated into a general concept, each represents an authentic account in its own right.

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Marine Ecology is presented in 5 volumes:

 

Volume I: Environmental Factors summarizes and evaluates important information available on the responses of ocean and coastal-water living organisms to variations in the major abiotic components of the environment.

Part 1(.pdf, 69.3mb)

Chapter 1: Oceans and Coastal Waters as Life-supporting Environments

Chapter 2: Light

Chapter 3: Temperature

Part 2 (.pdf, 89.1mb)

Chapter 4: Salinity

Chapter 5: Water Movement

Chapter 6: Turbidity

Part 3 (.pdf, 65.9mb)

Chapter 7: Substratum

Chapter 8: Pressure

Chapter 9: Dissolved Gases

Chapter 10: Organic Substances

Chapter 11: Ionizing Radiation

Chapter 12: Factor Combinations

 

 

Volume II: Physiological Mechanisms deals with synthesis and transversion of organic material, regulation, evolution, and population genetics, as well as with orientation to environmental components in space and time.

Part 1 (.pdf, 48.2mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume II

Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Chemo-autotrophy

Chapter 3: Mechanisms of Heterotrophy

Chapter 4: Mechanisms of Thermoregulation

Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Ion and Osmoregulation

Chapter 6: Mechanisms of Evolution and Population Genetics.

Part 2 (.pdf, 75.0mb)

Chapter 7: Orientation in Space: Plants

Chapter 8: Orientation in Space: Animals

Chapter 9: Orientation in Time: Endogenous Clocks

 

 

Volume III: Cultivation reviews the information that has accumulated on our capacity for supporting marine micro-organisms, plants, and animals under environmental and nutritive conditions that are, to a considerable degree, controlled.

Part 1 (.pdf, 106.9mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume III

Chapter 2: Cultivation of Marine Organisms: Water-quality Management and Technology

Chapter 3: Cultivation of Micro-organisms

Chapter 4: Cultivation of Plants

Part 2 (.pdf, 100.7mb)

Chapter 5: Cultivation of Animals

Chapter 6: Multispecies Cultures and Microcosms

Chapter 7: Chemical Contamination of Culture Media: Assessment, Avoidance and Control

Part 3 (.pdf, 59.6mb)

Chapter 8: Diseases of Plants

Chapter 9: Diseases of Animals

 

Volume IV: Dynamics focuses on production, transformation, and decomposition of organic matter in the marine environment, as well as on food webs and population dynamics.

Volume 4 (.pdf, 140.7mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Volume IV

Chapter 2: Production in Plant Populations

Chapter 3: Production in Animal Populations

Chapter 4: Production of Dissolved Organic Matter

Chapter 5: Transformation of Organic Matter

Chapter 6: Decomposition of Organic Matter and Nutrient Regeneration

Chapter 7: General Concepts of Population Dynamics and Food Links

 

Volume V: Ocean Management is the final volume in the series, and introduces the readers to man’s use of oceans and coastal waters for his own ends. It describes and evaluates all the essential information available on structures and functions of inter-organismic coexistence; on organic resources of the seas; on pollution of marine habitats and on the protection of life in oceans and coastal waters.

Part 1 (.pdf, 127.8mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Part 1 – Zonations and Organismic Assemblages

Chapter 2: Zonations

Chapter 3: General Features of Organismic Assemblages in the Pelagial and Benthal

Chapter 4: Structure and Dynamics of Assemblages in the Pelagial

Chapter 5: Structure and Dynamics of Assemblages in the Benthal

Chapter 6: Major Pelagic Assemblages

Chapter 7: Specific Pelagic Assemblages

Chapter 8: Major Benthic Assemblages

Chapter 9: Specific Benthic Assemblages

Part 2 (.pdf, 36.3mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Part 2 – Ecosystems and Organic Resources

Chapter 2: Ecosystems of the Open Sea

Chapter 3: Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems

Chapter 4: Fisheries Resources and Their Management

Part 3 (.pdf, 42.3mb)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Part 3 – Pollution and Protection of the Seas

Chapter 2: Contamination due to Radioactive Materials

Chapter 3: Heavy Metals and their Compounds

Chapter 4: Oil and Oil Dispersants

Part 4 (.pdf, 42.4mb)

Chapter 5: Introduction to Part 4 – Pesticides, Domestic Wastes, and Thermal Deformation

Chapter 6: Pesticides and Technical Organic Chemicals

Chapter 7: Domestic Wastes

Chapter 8: Thermal Deformations