Quantitative Ecology of Plankton

Application of a Holographic sensor for Plankton Ecology

Historical methods of zooplankton sampling and identification are limited, particularly with regard to spatial and temporal resolution in biologically patchy coastal marine ecosystems. One approach to improving zooplankton community characterization is high-resolution plankton imaging coupled with automated plankton identification. The first requirement for this approach is to image a represent...

Plankton diversity and aquatic ecology of a freshwater lake (L3) at Bharti Island, Larsemann Hills, east Antarctica

The Larsemann Hills range is an ice-free oasis on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica, which includes Bharti Island, Fisher Island, McLeod Island, Broknes Peninsula, Stornes Peninsula, and several other islands, promontories, and nunataks. The Larsemann Hills is an ice-free area of approximately 50 km2, located halfway between the Vestfold Hills a...

A Quantitative Study of the Winter Plankton of Urschel's Quarry

A Course in Quantitative Ecology

Cox's method depends on tallying observed distances within f ixed intervals away from the transect line. Thus all of the observations within a dis tance,∆ , on either side of the line are added up and used to estimate the t r u e proportion of all observations, denoted p(0,∆ ), that fall in that interval. H e n c e if there are k1 observations within the distance ∆ , we estimate p(0,∆ ) = k 1 /...

Predictive Microbiology - Quantitative Microbial Ecology

So what science does “predictive microbiology” cover exactly? In the first book on the subject, published just over 10 years ago, McMeekin et al. (1993) defined it as a quantitative science that enables users to evaluate objectively the effect of processing, distribution and storage operations on the microbiological safety and quality of foods. Later, the same authors used the expression “Quant...