By Winona B Vernberg
Within fresh years guy has turn into more and more conscious of the disastrous environmental adjustments that he has brought, and for that reason society is now extra serious about realizing the diversifications organisms have developed as a way to live to tell the tale and flourish of their surroundings. simply because a lot of the data relating this topic is scattered in a number of journals or certain symposia court cases, our function in scripting this ebook is to assemble in a college-and graduate-student textual content the valuable thoughts of the environmental body structure of the animals that inhabit one of many significant nation-states of the earth, the ocean. Our e-book isn't intended to be a definitive treatise at the physiological adap tation of the animals that inhabit the marine surroundings. in its place, we've got attempted to spotlight many of the physiological mechanisms wherein those animals were capable of meet the demanding situations in their atmosphere. we've not written this publication for somebody specific medical self-discipline; quite, we are hoping that it'll have an interdisciplinary attraction. it truly is intended to be either a reference textual content and a textual content for educating senior undergraduate and graduate classes in marine biology, physiological ecology of marine animals, and envi ronmental body structure of marine animals.
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The endless sea (Courtesy of Coates Crewe). CHAPTER II THE SEA A. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Flowing incessantly over 71 percent of the earth's surface is a watery mass known as the sea. This milieu, which has a volume of approximately 315 million cubic miles, offers a great number of distinctive habitats to a rich diversity of biotic species. Organisms must be functionally adapted to withstand the particular set of environmental parameters which they experience in these diverse habitats, or they will perish.
At times, this zone overlaps the deep scattering layers (DSL), a sound-reflecting layer recorded on echo-sounders which is found at fluctuating depths in open waters. Apparently this layer represents a great concentration of organisms which reflect sound waves to the surface. In anoxic regions of the world seas, the concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H2 S) tends to be high. When the uppermost boundary of a sulfide-producing region comes into contact with the free atmosphere, a distinctive black layer is formed.
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