556
GENERAL INDEX
Porcupine Abyssal Plain (Atlantic Ocean) – deposit feeders
(cont’d)
– – survey of gut contents, 351, 358
– echinoderms, 150
– – densities, 141
– – reproduction, 399
– interannual variability, 352
– location, 117
– necrophages, 153
– – photographic records, 152
– nematodes, 157
– oxygen consumption, 161
– phytodetritus, 121, 122, 141, 325
– – mass deposition, 322, 323
– – seasonality, 72
– polychaetes, 150
– radioactive waste, 114
– seasonality, 121
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 160
– stable isotope studies, 342
– temporal shifts in community composition, 332
Porcupine Bank (Atlantic Ocean), 117
Porcupine Seabight (Atlantic Ocean), 114, 132, 135–137, 461
– animal traces, 155
– biomass, 135, 144, 157, 158
– bottom currents, 136
– demersal fish, 155
– densities, 135–137
– downslope processes, 431
– echinoderms, 150
– effects on abundances, 157
– faunal densities, 144
– holothurians, 136
– necrophages, 152
– oxygen consumption, 161
– phytodetritus, 121, 122, 136, 322
– – response to, 123
– – time-lapse studies, 322
– reproduction
– – cnidarians, 402, 403
– – crustaceans, 391
– – echinoderms, 400
– resuspension, 329
– sampling, 116, 135, 136
– seasonality, 122
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 160, 336
pore-water profiling, 336, 349, 360
– for dissolved oxygen, 335
poriferans (see sponges, and Porifera in Systematic Index)
Portuguese-man-o’war, 73
postlarvae, 330
potential temperature (θ), 271
PPMT (pre-pilot mining test), 450, 455
PRA (preservational reference area), 460
pre-pilot mining test (PPMT), 449, 451, 452
precautionary measures, 457
precautionary research, 433
precipitation, 429
predation, 407, 408
predator–prey relationships, 316, 361
predators, 351, 363
– Pacific Ocean, 204
– responses to episodic food supply, 352
preservation of marine environment, 458, 459
preservational reference area (PRA), 460
pressure
– biochemical effects, 6
– effects on metabolism, 239
– effects on species’ ranges, 26
– physiological effects, 6
priapulids, 165
primary production, 2, 39, 49–60, 68, 112, 159, 318, 321, 430,
451, 452
– Antarctic deep sea, 253
– Arctic Ocean, 242, 243
– Atlantic Ocean, 112, 119–123
– – Northwest African margin, 139
– – seasonality, 120–122
– Caribbean Sea, 270
– chemosynthesis, 91
– effects of light, 8
– effects on biomass and densities, 157
– effects on demersal fish, 156
– export production, 50
– f-ratio, 50
– foraminiferans, 141
– global oceanic, 335
– Gulf of Mexico, 272
– Indian Ocean, 222, 226, 227
– Indonesian Seas, 274
– iron limitation in the Southern Ocean, 253
– large-scale patterns, 317
– Mediterranean Sea, 265, 266
– “new”, 50
– “old”, 50
– recycling, 69
– Red Sea, 268
– relation to biomass, 17
– Russian work, 317
– Sea of Japan, 276
– Sea of Okhotsk, 277
– seasonal variation, 272, 274, 276
– seasonality, 66, 70–72, 119, 303
– spring bloom, 122
– surface, 298, 299, 303, 304, 306
prodissoconch, 397, 414
production, 194
production domains, 70
productivity, 70, 298
– upwelling, 68
protected areas, 459
protection of the marine environment, 427, 458, 459
proteins, 324, 333, 347, 359, 361
– in whale bones, 355
– labile, 333
– refractory, 333
protoconch, 397, 414, 416
protozoans, 123, 158, 325, 341, 344
GENERAL INDEX
Porcupine Abyssal Plain (Atlantic Ocean) – deposit feeders
(cont’d)
– – survey of gut contents, 351, 358
– echinoderms, 150
– – densities, 141
– – reproduction, 399
– interannual variability, 352
– location, 117
– necrophages, 153
– – photographic records, 152
– nematodes, 157
– oxygen consumption, 161
– phytodetritus, 121, 122, 141, 325
– – mass deposition, 322, 323
– – seasonality, 72
– polychaetes, 150
– radioactive waste, 114
– seasonality, 121
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 160
– stable isotope studies, 342
– temporal shifts in community composition, 332
Porcupine Bank (Atlantic Ocean), 117
Porcupine Seabight (Atlantic Ocean), 114, 132, 135–137, 461
– animal traces, 155
– biomass, 135, 144, 157, 158
– bottom currents, 136
– demersal fish, 155
– densities, 135–137
– downslope processes, 431
– echinoderms, 150
– effects on abundances, 157
– faunal densities, 144
– holothurians, 136
– necrophages, 152
– oxygen consumption, 161
– phytodetritus, 121, 122, 136, 322
– – response to, 123
– – time-lapse studies, 322
– reproduction
– – cnidarians, 402, 403
– – crustaceans, 391
– – echinoderms, 400
– resuspension, 329
– sampling, 116, 135, 136
– seasonality, 122
– sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC), 160, 336
pore-water profiling, 336, 349, 360
– for dissolved oxygen, 335
poriferans (see sponges, and Porifera in Systematic Index)
Portuguese-man-o’war, 73
postlarvae, 330
potential temperature (θ), 271
PPMT (pre-pilot mining test), 450, 455
PRA (preservational reference area), 460
pre-pilot mining test (PPMT), 449, 451, 452
precautionary measures, 457
precautionary research, 433
precipitation, 429
predation, 407, 408
predator–prey relationships, 316, 361
predators, 351, 363
– Pacific Ocean, 204
– responses to episodic food supply, 352
preservation of marine environment, 458, 459
preservational reference area (PRA), 460
pressure
– biochemical effects, 6
– effects on metabolism, 239
– effects on species’ ranges, 26
– physiological effects, 6
priapulids, 165
primary production, 2, 39, 49–60, 68, 112, 159, 318, 321, 430,
451, 452
– Antarctic deep sea, 253
– Arctic Ocean, 242, 243
– Atlantic Ocean, 112, 119–123
– – Northwest African margin, 139
– – seasonality, 120–122
– Caribbean Sea, 270
– chemosynthesis, 91
– effects of light, 8
– effects on biomass and densities, 157
– effects on demersal fish, 156
– export production, 50
– f-ratio, 50
– foraminiferans, 141
– global oceanic, 335
– Gulf of Mexico, 272
– Indian Ocean, 222, 226, 227
– Indonesian Seas, 274
– iron limitation in the Southern Ocean, 253
– large-scale patterns, 317
– Mediterranean Sea, 265, 266
– “new”, 50
– “old”, 50
– recycling, 69
– Red Sea, 268
– relation to biomass, 17
– Russian work, 317
– Sea of Japan, 276
– Sea of Okhotsk, 277
– seasonal variation, 272, 274, 276
– seasonality, 66, 70–72, 119, 303
– spring bloom, 122
– surface, 298, 299, 303, 304, 306
prodissoconch, 397, 414
production, 194
production domains, 70
productivity, 70, 298
– upwelling, 68
protected areas, 459
protection of the marine environment, 427, 458, 459
proteins, 324, 333, 347, 359, 361
– in whale bones, 355
– labile, 333
– refractory, 333
protoconch, 397, 414, 416
protozoans, 123, 158, 325, 341, 344