Browsing by Subject "Biology, Oceanography"
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Ecotoxicology of Natural and Anthropogenic Extreme Environments
(2010)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced endogenously in all aerobes and are induced by environmental stressors. ROS oxidize and disable essential cellular components such as DNA, proteins, and lipid membranes. Exposure ... -
Linking Prey to Predator: Scale Dependence and Oceanographic Influence in Marine Food Webs
(2008-09-02)Increased pressure has been placed on researchers to focus on processes at an ecosystem level. However, ecological processes operate at multiple scales from an individual predator up to ocean basin migrations, and research ... -
On the Horizontal Advection and Biogeochemical Impacts of North Atlantic Mode Waters and Boundary Currents
(2007-07-26)Using a combination of hydrographic data and the trajectories and profiles of isobaric floats, this dissertation evaluates the connections between remote regions in the North Atlantic. First, I establish that the production ... -
The Historical Ecology and Social-Ecological Systems of Kona Coast Coral Reefs: towards 'Peopled' Approaches to Marine Science and Management
(2008-04-23)No corner of the world's oceans is untouched by humans. Yet in marine science, management, and conservation, oceans are consistently treated as 'unpeopled', that is, human systems are divorced systematically from ecological ...
