Arctic Sea Ice Ecosystem

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Milnikob coordinates the Arctic Research Programme at the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, and has participated in many expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. Here he describes the permanent Arctic sea ice cover as an integral steady-state ecological system, and considers is composition, structure, and dynamics. He provides time-scale characteristics, physical and chemical properties, the species composition of sea ice biota, and the ecological mechanisms that govern the ecosystem on both the vertical and lateral scales. This specialty within ecological science is too new to have developed much jargon, so this account should be accessible to anyone with a basic scientific background.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


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This book is dedicated to the study of the composition, structure and dynamics of the Artic sea ice ecosystem. It considers the permanent Artic sea ice cover as an integral steady-state ecological system. Detailed descriptions are given of time-scale characteristics, physical and chemical ice properties, and the species composition of sea-ice-bio data. The ecological mechanisms which govern the ecosystem on both the vertical and lateral scales are discussed, including the function of microcommunities during sea ice evolution.
The Arctic Ocean is a major component of the world's atmosphere ocean system and within this ocean, sea ice is the key dominant environmental feature. This 3 to 5-meter thick perenial sea ice cover affects the magnitude of both heat and matter fluxes from the atmosphere and supports a unique and tightly coupled biological community; the Artic sea ice ecosystem.


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Milnikob coordinates the Arctic Research Programme at the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, and has participated in many expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. Here he describes the permanent Arctic sea ice cover as an integral steady-state ecological system, and considers is composition, structure, and dynamics. He provides time-scale characteristics, physical and chemical properties, the species composition of sea ice biota, and the ecological mechanisms that govern the ecosystem on both the vertical and lateral scales. This specialty within ecological science is too new to have developed much jargon, so this account should be accessible to anyone with a basic scientific background. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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