Biological Oceanography : : An Early History. 1870 - 1960 /

Biological Oceanography : : An Early History. 1870 - 1960 / / Eric Mills.

First published in 1989, Eric L. Mills's comprehensive history of biological oceanography has been praised as 'superb' (BioScience) and 'proof that history need not be dull' (The Northern Mariner). This first history of the field, which chronicles the scientific work and cre...

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Mills, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2011
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • NOTES
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE 2012 EDITION
  • NOTES
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: The Development of Biological Oceanography
  • PART 1. The Origin of Biological Oceanography in Germany and Scandinavia during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • 1. "This Blood of the Sea": The Origin of Quantitative Plankton Biology in Germany, 1870-1911
  • 2. The Control of Metabolism in the Sea: Karl Brandt, the Nitrogen Cycle, and the Origin of Brandt's Hypothesis
  • 3. International Oceanography, the Kiel School, and the Fate of Brandt's Hypothesis
  • 4. "The Water Blooms": The Discovery of the Spring Bloom and Its Control
  • 5. Hydrography and the Control of Plankton Abundance: Solving the Problem of Plankton Blooms
  • 6. The End of an Era: The Demise of the Kiel Schoo
  • PART 2. Biological Oceanography in Britain and the United States, 1921-1960
  • 7. Food from the Sea: The Origin of British Biological Oceanography
  • 8. Surveying the Blue Pasture: Plankton Dynamics at Plymouth, 1921-1933
  • 9. Plankton Production and Its Control: The Marine Ecosystem at Plymouth, 1934-1958
  • 10. Appreciating Mathematics: The Origin of Plankton Modeling in the United States, 1934-1946
  • 11. Disciplined Thinking in Biological Oceanography: Plankton Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, and Riley's "Synthetic Method"
  • Conclusion: The End of One Tale and the Beginning of Another
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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