Island, Ocean and Deep-Sea Biology: Proceedings of the 34th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal, 13–17 September 1999

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Thoughts on the ecology and evolution of the intertidal biota of the Azores and other Atlantic islands....Pages 3-17
A provisional classification of algal-characterised rocky shore biotopes in the Azores....Pages 19-25
Variability at different spatial scales of a coralligenous assemblage at Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, northwest Mediterranean)....Pages 27-36
Diversity, recruitment and competition on island shores at south-polar localities compared with lower latitudes: encrusting community examples....Pages 37-44
Are kelp holdfasts islands on the ocean floor? — indication for temporarily closed aggregations of peracarid crustaceans....Pages 45-54
A sponge diversity centre within a marine ‘island’....Pages 55-64
An offshore buoy as a small artificial island and a fish-aggregating device (FAD) in the Mediterranean....Pages 65-80
Periodic movement, recruitment and size-related distribution of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Solomon Islands....Pages 81-100
A ‘minimum stress inflexion’ in relation to environmental and biotic influences on the dynamics of subtidal encrusting communities?....Pages 101-109
Shell occupancy of the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus (Decapoda, Diogenidae) on São Miguel (Azores)....Pages 111-117
Direct and indirect effects of Littorina littorea (L.) on barnacles growing on mussel beds in the Wadden Sea....Pages 119-128
Age and growth, reproduction and diet of a sublittoral population of the rock goby Gobius paganellus (Teleostei, Gobiidae)....Pages 129-135
Luminous capabilities and life-history traits of the polychromatic ophiuroid Amphipholis squamata in two isolated populations from Oliveri-Tindari lagoon system, Sicily....Pages 137-144
Physical control of plankton population abundance and dynamics in intertidal rock pools....Pages 145-152
New records of brown algae (Phaeophyta) from the Azores....Pages 153-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Quantification of diel vertical migration by micronektonic taxa in the northeast Atlantic....Pages 161-179
Colonization of floating seaweed by pelagic and subtidal benthic animals in southwestern Iceland....Pages 181-189
Semper’s (zoanthid) larvae: pelagic life, parentage and other problems....Pages 191-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
A review of the distribution of hydrothermal vent communities along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: dispersal vs. environmental controls....Pages 201-216
The effect of water depth on bacterial numbers, thymidine incorporation rates and C:N ratios in northeast Atlantic surficial sediments....Pages 217-225
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Distribution of live benthic Foraminifera at three oceanographically dissimilar sites in the northeast Atlantic: preliminary results....Pages 227-238
Foraminiferan (Protozoa) epizoites on deep-water arcturids (Crustacea, Isopoda)....Pages 239-247
Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling?....Pages 249-260
Patterns in deep-sea macrobenthos at the continental margin: standing crop, diversity and faunal change on the continental slope off Scotland....Pages 261-271
Lipid profiles of Nematocarcinus gracilis a deep-sea shrimp from below the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone....Pages 273-279
Community structure of deep-sea demersal fish in the North Aegean Sea (northeastern Mediterranean)....Pages 281-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Influence of light and nitrogen on the phlorotannin content of the brown seaweeds Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus ....Pages 299-305
Nutrification impacts on coral reefs from northern Bahia, Brazil....Pages 307-315
Stable isotope evidence of benthic microalgae-based growth and secondary production in the suspension feeder Cerastoderma edule (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the Marennes-Oléron Bay....Pages 317-329
Annual growth of the cockle Clinocardium ciliatum in the Norwegian Arctic (Svalbard area)....Pages 331-338
Distribution and abundance of co-occurring chthamalid barnacles Chthamalus montagui and Chthamalus stellatus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) on the southwest coast of Portugal....Pages 339-345
Predation by juvenile Platichthys flesus (L.) on shelled prey species in a bare sand and a drift algae habitat....Pages 347-355
Feast or famine for intertidal grazing molluscs: a mis-match between seasonal variations in grazing intensity and the abundance of microbial resources....Pages 357-367
Bioturbation as a mechanism for setting and maintaining levels of diversity in subtidal macrobenthic communities....Pages 369-377
Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in an environment with multiple gradients of physical disturbance, Manukau Harbour, New Zealand....Pages 379-391