Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Deep-sea Food Chain and Their Relation to the Global Carbon Cycles, Held in College Station, Texas, U.S.A., April 2-6, 1991

The 25 papers in this volume present various approaches to quantifying the mechanisms by which the "rain" of biogenic debris nourishes deep-ocean life, addressing the relationships between data and models of carbon fluxes and food chains in the deep ocean.

Bacterial Standing Stock and Consumption Of Organic Carbon in The Benthic Boundary Layer of The Abyssal North Atlantic.- Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Deep-Sea Sediments: Towards A Global View.- The Role of Deep-Sea Zooplankton in Carbon Cycles.- Abundance and Biomass of Metazoan Meiobenthos in The Deep Sea.- The Role Of Benthic Foraminifera in Deep-Sea Food Webs and Carbon Cycling.- Possible Roles For Xenophyophores in Deep-Sea Carbon Cycling.- Foraging of Scavenging Deep-Sea Lysianassoid Amphipods.- Deep-Sea Epibenthic Megafauna of The Northeast Atlantic: Abundance And Biomass At Three Mid-Oceanic Locations Estimated From Photographic Transects.- South Aegean (Eastern Mediterranean) Continental Slope Benthos: Macroinfaunal-Environmental Relationships.- Production/Biomass Ratios, Size Frequencies and Biomass Spectra in Deep-Sea Demersal Fishes.- Organic Carbon Flux Through The Benthic Community in The Temperate Abyssal Northeast Atlantic.- Benthic Secondary Production in The Deep Sea.- Metabolic Potential of Deep-Sea Animals: Regional and Global Scales.- Adenosine Nucleotides as Indicators of Deep-Sea Benthic Metabolism.- Effects of Spatial and Temporal Scale on The Relationship of Surface Pigment Biomass to Community Structure in The Deep-Sea Benthos.- Benthic Food Web Flows in The Santa Monica Basin Estimated Using Inverse Methodology.- Predicting Community Dynamics From Food Web Structure.- The Spatial Distribution of Sea Floor Oxygen Consumption in The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.- Using Monod Kinetics in Geochemical Models of Organic Carbon Mineralization in Deep Sea Surficial Sediments.- The Characterization of Organic Matter From Abyssal Sediments, Pore Waters and Sediment Traps.- Particle Export and Resuspension Fluxes in The Western North Atlantic.- Large Aggregate Flux and Fate at The Seafloor: Diagenesis During The Rebound Process.- Factors Controlling Bioturbation in Deep-Sea Sediments and Their Relation to Models of Carbon Diagenesis.- Adding Biology to One-Dimensional Models of Sediment-Carbon Degradation: The Multi-B Approach.