Primary Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea

Honorary Lecture.- Towards Understanding the Roles of Phytoplankton in Biogeochemical Cycles: Personal Notes.- Factors Limiting Primary Productivity in the Sea I. Light.- The Nature and Measurement of the Light Environment in the Ocean.- The Functional and Optical Absorption Cross-Sections of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis.- Molecular Ecology of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis.- Factors Limiting Primary Productivity in the Sea II. Nutrients.- Nutrient Limitation and Marine Photosynthesis.- Geological and Climatic Time Scales of Nutrient Variability.- Nutrient Limitation of New Production in the Sea.- Iron as a Limiting Factor in Oceanic Productivity.- Estimation of Global Ocean Production.- Satellite Ocean Color Observations of Global Biogeochemical Cycles.- Advances in Understanding Phytoplankton Fluorescence and Photosynthesis.- Bio-Optical Models and the Problems of Scaling.- The Role of Marine Organisms in Primary Production.- Phytoplankton Size.- Productivity of Seaweeds.- Productivity of Zooxanthellae and Biogeochemical Cycles.- New Production and Biogeochemical Cycles.- The Importance and Measurement of New Production.- The Role of Coastal High Latitude Ecosystems in Global Export Production.- Tracer-Based Inferences of New Primary Production in the Sea.- New Production and the Global Carbon Cycle.- Loss Processes and Material Recycling.- Respiration: Taxation Without Representation?.- Bacterioplankton Roles in Cycling of Organic Matter: The Microbial Food Web.- Regeneration of Nutrients.- Grazing, Temporal Changes of Phytoplankton Concentrations, and the Microbial Loop in the Open Sea.- Phytoplankton in the Global Content.- Biosphere, Atmosphere, Ocean Interactions: A Plant Physiologist’s Perspective.- Reading the Sedimentary Record of the Ocean’s Productivity.-Do Marine Phytoplankton Influence Global Climate?.- Participants.