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The biology of Indian ocean
- Date_TXT
- New york : Springer , 1973
- Cote
- 578.77 REI
- Auteur
- Zeitzschel, Bernt
- Type de document
- Livre
Description :
The "Biology of the Indian ocean" was one of the main topics studied intensively 'durmg the International Indian ocean Expédition 1959-1965. the goal of this expeditionary series was to investigate a largely unknown ocean by means of an interdisciplinary approach. Meteorologists, geologists, physial, chemical and biological oceano-graphers tried to examine in detail the very complicated relations between living creatures in the ocean and their abiotic environment.
This volume contains the proceedmgs of a Symposium held at Kiel University Germany, from 31 March to 6 April, 1971. It provides much new information and some synthesis, ail directed towards an understanding of the functioning and organization of the ecosystem of the Indian ocean.
Vol. 1 in the series, ecological studies, summarized the existing data on some important topics in temperate forest ecosystems. Vol. 2 is a report on thé Solling Project, the German Research association's contribution to the IBP.
Dr. BERNT ZEITZSCHEL, born in 1937, is a biological oceanographer at Oie Institut fur Meereskunde an der Uni-versità't Kiel. He has published several papers on various ecological aspects of the Atlantic, pacific and Indian oceans.