Island, Ocean and Deep-Sea Biology

Topic 1: Ecology and Evolution on Island Shores. 1.1. Thoughts on the ecology and evolution of the intertidal biota of the Azores and other Atlantic islands; S.J. Hawkins, et al. Invitied Keynote Address. 1.2. A provisional classification of algal characterized rocky shore biotopes in the Azores; I. Tittley, A.I. Neto. 1.3. Variability at different spatial scales of a coralligenous assemblage at Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, northwest Mediterranean); F. Ferdeghini, et al. 1.4. Diversity, recruitment and competition on island shores at south-polar localities compared with lower latitudes: encrusting community examples; D.K.A. Barnes. 1.5. Are kelp holdfasts islands on the ocean floor? - Indication for temporarily closed aggregations of peracarid crustaceans; M. Thiel, J.A. Vásquez. 1.6. A sponge diversity centre within a marine `Island'; J.J. Bell, D.K.A. Barnes. 1.7. An offshore buoy as a small artificial island and a Fish Aggregatory Device (FAD) in the Mediterranean; G. Relini, et al. 1.8. Periodic movement, recruitment and size-related distribution on the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Solomon Islands; A. Mercier, et al. 1.9. A `minimum stress inflexion' in relation to environmental and biotic influences on the dynamics of subtidal encrusting communities?; B.C. Maughan, D.K.A. Barnes. 1.10. Shell occupancy of the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus (Decapoda, Diogenidae) on São Miguel (Azores); A.Z. Botelho, A.C. Costa. 1.11. Direct and indirect effects of Littorina littorea (L.) on barnacles growing on mussel beds in the Wadden Sea; C. Buschbaum.1.12. Age and growth, reproduction and diet of a sublittoral population of the rock goby Gobius paganellus (Teleostei: Gobiidae); J.M.N. Azevedo, A.M.V. Simas. 1.13.Luminous capabilities and life-history traits of the polychromatic ophiuroid Amphipholis squamata in two isolated populations from Oliveri-Tindari lagoon system (Sicily); S. Dupont, J. Mallefet. 1.14 Physical control of plankton population abundance and dynamics in intertidal rock pools; M.P. Johnson. 1.15. New records of brown algae (Phaeophyta) from the Azores; M.I. Parente, et al. Topic 2: The Open Ocean. 2.1. Quantification of diel vertical migration by micronektonic taxa in the Northeast Atlantic; M.V. Angel, P.R. Pugh. Invited Keynote Address. 2.2. Colonization of floating seaweed by pelagic and subtidal benthic animals in south-western Iceland; A. Ingólfsson. 2.3. (Semper's (zoanthid) larvae: pelagic life, parentage and other problems; J.S. Ryland, et al. Topic 3: The Deep Ocean. 3.1. A review of the distribution of hydrothermal vent communities along the northern mid-Atlantic ridge: dispersal vs. environmental controls; D. Desbruyères, et al. Invited Keynote Address. 3.2. The effect of water depth on bacterial numbers, thymidine incorporation rates and C:N ratios in north-east Atlantic surficial sediments; J.L. Dixon, C.M. Turley. 3.3. Distribution of live benthic Foraminifera at three oceanographically dissimilar sites in the north-east Atlantic: preliminary results; J.A. Hughes, et al. 3.4. Foraminiferan (protozoa) epizoites on deep-water arcturids (Crustacea, Isopoda); J. Svavarsson,