GENERAL INDEX
551
– reducing habitats, 90
– Savu Basin (Indonesia), 274
– Sea of Japan, 276
– Sea of Okhotsk, 277
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 122–124,
158, 475
– sediment oxygen demand, 132
– solubility, 42
– Sulu Sea (Indonesian Seas), 273
– upwelling, 68
– vertical distribution, 7
– Weber Deep (Indonesian Seas), 274
oxygen consumption, 133, 348
– changes with depth, 74, 348
– phytodetritus, 337
– weight specific, 348
oxygen depletion, 84, 116, 182
– Black Sea, 86
– Californian Basin, 86
– microbial oxidation, 86
– Peruvian Trench, 86
oxygen electrodes, 335
oxygen isotopes, 416
– ratios, 396
oxygen minimum zones, 7, 68, 182, 186, 197–199, 213, 285, 455
– Atlantic Ocean, 112
– bacterial densities, 231
– barriers to gene flow, 199
– biogenic features, 228
– bioturbation rates, 199
– brittle stars, 347
– carbon sources, 228, 229
– deposit feeders, 232
– effects of monsoon, 44, 48
– effects of organic carbon, 184
– foraminifera, 8, 231
– Indian Ocean, 219, 226–232
– mining discharge, 451
– mudball-building cirratulids, 228
– North Pacific, 184
– Oman Margin, 219
– organic carbon, 7
– organic-carbon content of sediments, 183
– partially enclosed basins, 185
– Peru–Chile slope, 198
– respiration rates, 199
– sediment mixing, 232
– sediment mounds, 228
– sediments, 227
– spider crabs, 229, 347, 388
– trench fauna, 212
– Volcano 7, 198
– Walvis Bay (Atlantic Ocean), 153
ozone, 429
P/B ratio, 350
Pacific Deep Water, 182
Pacific Ocean, 74, 179–213, 439
– abyssal equatorial Pacific, 199–206
– – bioturbation, 201
– – carbon sources, 203, 204
– – microbial biomass, 202
– – phytodetritus, 203
– – sediments, 200
– – species distribution, 201–203
– – vertical flux, 200, 203
– – xenophyophores, 201, 202, 204
– arctic water, 112
– benthic boundary layer community
– – respiratory demand, 334
– benthic community, 336
– bioturbation, 199
– budgetary model, 362
– characteristics, 45
– circulation, 180
– colonization studies, 165
– connection to the Arctic Ocean, 247, 249
– connection to the Southern Ocean, 249
– continental slopes, 186–197
– – California margin, 186–197
– deposit feeders, 347, 348
– deposition of phytodetritus, 71
– detrital aggregates, 352
– detritivorous copepods, 69
– DISCOL experiment, 200, 201, 204, 474
– distribution of benthic biomass, 17
– echinoderms, reproduction, 399
– fallout events, 428
– faunal affinities with Southern Ocean, 256
– food supply
– – interannual variability, 352
– – whale carcasses, 355
– foraminiferans, 307, 338
– hard substrata, 184
– low-oxygen basins, 185
– manganese nodules, 202, 206
– – JGOFS study, 200
– mean depth, 45
– megafauna, 366
– microbial processes, 154
– mining, 449, 451, 452, 460
– morphology, 179
– near-bottom currents, 184
– necrophages, 191, 207–209
– nemertean worms, reproduction, 403
– nitrate concentrations, 52
– nuclear waste disposal, 206, 437
– oligotrophic abyss, 206–210
– – biogenic features, 206
– – biomass, 208
– – carbon sources, 208, 209
– – oxygen, 206
– – resuspension, 206
– – sediment community respiration, 209, 210
– – sedimentation rates, 206
– – sediments, 206
– – vertical flux, 208
– ostracods, 64
551
– reducing habitats, 90
– Savu Basin (Indonesia), 274
– Sea of Japan, 276
– Sea of Okhotsk, 277
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 122–124,
158, 475
– sediment oxygen demand, 132
– solubility, 42
– Sulu Sea (Indonesian Seas), 273
– upwelling, 68
– vertical distribution, 7
– Weber Deep (Indonesian Seas), 274
oxygen consumption, 133, 348
– changes with depth, 74, 348
– phytodetritus, 337
– weight specific, 348
oxygen depletion, 84, 116, 182
– Black Sea, 86
– Californian Basin, 86
– microbial oxidation, 86
– Peruvian Trench, 86
oxygen electrodes, 335
oxygen isotopes, 416
– ratios, 396
oxygen minimum zones, 7, 68, 182, 186, 197–199, 213, 285, 455
– Atlantic Ocean, 112
– bacterial densities, 231
– barriers to gene flow, 199
– biogenic features, 228
– bioturbation rates, 199
– brittle stars, 347
– carbon sources, 228, 229
– deposit feeders, 232
– effects of monsoon, 44, 48
– effects of organic carbon, 184
– foraminifera, 8, 231
– Indian Ocean, 219, 226–232
– mining discharge, 451
– mudball-building cirratulids, 228
– North Pacific, 184
– Oman Margin, 219
– organic carbon, 7
– organic-carbon content of sediments, 183
– partially enclosed basins, 185
– Peru–Chile slope, 198
– respiration rates, 199
– sediment mixing, 232
– sediment mounds, 228
– sediments, 227
– spider crabs, 229, 347, 388
– trench fauna, 212
– Volcano 7, 198
– Walvis Bay (Atlantic Ocean), 153
ozone, 429
P/B ratio, 350
Pacific Deep Water, 182
Pacific Ocean, 74, 179–213, 439
– abyssal equatorial Pacific, 199–206
– – bioturbation, 201
– – carbon sources, 203, 204
– – microbial biomass, 202
– – phytodetritus, 203
– – sediments, 200
– – species distribution, 201–203
– – vertical flux, 200, 203
– – xenophyophores, 201, 202, 204
– arctic water, 112
– benthic boundary layer community
– – respiratory demand, 334
– benthic community, 336
– bioturbation, 199
– budgetary model, 362
– characteristics, 45
– circulation, 180
– colonization studies, 165
– connection to the Arctic Ocean, 247, 249
– connection to the Southern Ocean, 249
– continental slopes, 186–197
– – California margin, 186–197
– deposit feeders, 347, 348
– deposition of phytodetritus, 71
– detrital aggregates, 352
– detritivorous copepods, 69
– DISCOL experiment, 200, 201, 204, 474
– distribution of benthic biomass, 17
– echinoderms, reproduction, 399
– fallout events, 428
– faunal affinities with Southern Ocean, 256
– food supply
– – interannual variability, 352
– – whale carcasses, 355
– foraminiferans, 307, 338
– hard substrata, 184
– low-oxygen basins, 185
– manganese nodules, 202, 206
– – JGOFS study, 200
– mean depth, 45
– megafauna, 366
– microbial processes, 154
– mining, 449, 451, 452, 460
– morphology, 179
– near-bottom currents, 184
– necrophages, 191, 207–209
– nemertean worms, reproduction, 403
– nitrate concentrations, 52
– nuclear waste disposal, 206, 437
– oligotrophic abyss, 206–210
– – biogenic features, 206
– – biomass, 208
– – carbon sources, 208, 209
– – oxygen, 206
– – resuspension, 206
– – sediment community respiration, 209, 210
– – sedimentation rates, 206
– – sediments, 206
– – vertical flux, 208
– ostracods, 64