Subject Index
Page numbers in italics denote figures, photos, or tables.
adaptation 73,84, 88
adjustment stability 40
adult-larval interactions 39,46
adventive algae 207
aggregate 11
Aktuopalaontologie 131
algal blankets 207
- film 201
allochthonous import 338,340
alternative feeding mechanisms 74
- feeding mode 90
- stable state 177
Andaman Sea 269
annual net production 203
antipredator adaptions 331
ArdbearLough 20
areas (ant)arctic 140
- temperate 140
- tropical 140
Ariake Sound 158
artifical habitat units (HUs) 348-349
assemblages 284
autocatalytic 30
Bacillariophyceae 105 see diatom
baffles 187
Balgzand 319
Banc d' Arguin 255,257,271
Bay of Brest 20,28-29
beach morpho dynamics 62
- state index 62
bed roughness 43
- shear stress, critical 179, 188
benthic micro algae 357
benthic-pelagic coupling 11
see benthopelagic
benthopelagic coupling 6,358
Bermuda 19
biodeposition 51
biodeposits 13
biodiversity 2,113,347 see diversity,
species diversity
biofacies 128
biofilm 180
biogenic reefs 306
- stabilization 118,361
biogeographic regions 165,275,289
biological interactions 70
biomass 202
- size spectra 345
- spectra 344-345
biomixing 89
biostabilization 119
biotic interactions 303
bioturbation 127-129,140,162, 164,
177,189,339
bioturbator 166,362,363
birds 183-184,188,250
blackheaded gulls 136
body-size distribution 343-344
bootstrap procedure 321
bottom-up 39
- effect 339, 342
- forces 251
boundary layer 109
- flow 43
brackish 364
browsing 246
brushwood groynes 183
burrowing rates 68
byssusthreads 12