Part 1 book “Elements of marine ecology” has contents: The oceans, marine plankton, measuring and sampling, the seawater habitat – physical and chemical conditions, organic production in the sea. | Elements of Marine Ecology This Page Intentionally Left Blank Elements of Marine Ecology Fourth Edition . Tait F. A. Dipper Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group OXFORD BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI SINGAPORE First published 1968 Reprinted 1970 Second edition 1972 Reprinted 1975, 1977, 1978 Third edition 1981 Reprinted 1983, 1988, 1992 Fourth edition 1998 䉷 R. V. Tait and F. A. Dipper 1998 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Tait, R. V. (Ronald Victor) Elements of marine ecology. – 4th ed. 1 Marine ecology I Title II Dipper, Frances ISBN 0 7506 2088 9 Typeset by Keyword Publishing Printed and bound in Great .