Soft-Sediment Communities
Soft-Sediment Communities
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软沉积物群落
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2013
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Jonathan H. Grabowski
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J. E. Byers;Jonathan H. Grabowski
咸水沉积物是地球上最大的栖息地类型之一，覆盖了大约80%的海底(Lenihan和Micheli，2001；Nybakken和Berness，2005)。因此，要真正了解塑造地球上群落的过程，关键是要了解这种栖息地的基础。事实上，人们一直致力于研究这种栖息地(特别是在近岸地区)，过去几十年的结果已经得到了很好的总结。为了全面描述这个栖息地，包括对发生在其中的过程的详细描述，我们引导读者参考Olafsson及其同事(1994)、Gray(2002)，特别是Lenihan和Micheli(2001)的作品。本章没有重复这些出色的描述，而是简要总结了软沉积物环境中分布和丰度的一般模式，并列出了从关于这些生境的大量文献中出现的主要结构过程和机制的图文并茂的清单(方框10.1)。这些概括和原理的提炼为本章重点讨论软质沉积物生态学的四个独特和显著的最新进展提供了基础。
arine sediments constitute one of the largest habitat types on Earth, covering roughly 80% of the ocean bottom (Lenihan and Micheli 2001; Nybakken and Bertness 2005). As a result, to truly understand the processes that shape communities on our planet, it is critical to understand the underpinnings of this habitat. In fact, much effort has been focused on studying this habitat (especially in nearshore areas), and the results have been well summarized over the past several decades. For a thorough description of this habitat, including detailed depictions of the processes that occur in it, we direct the reader to the works by Olafsson and colleagues (1994), Gray (2002), and especially Lenihan and Micheli (2001). Rather than repeating these excellent descriptions, this chapter provides a brief summary of general patterns of distribution and abundance in soft-sediment environments and an illustrated list of the main structuring processes and mechanisms that have emerged from the large literature on these habitats (Box 10.1). The distillation of these generalizations and principles provides a basis for the focus of this chapter on four areas of distinctive and pronounced recent advances in soft-sediment ecology.