Description: This volume reports on the findings of experts on tropical zooplankton gathered at a meeting in Kariba, Zimbabwe, in 1991. Some basic questions were asked on community composition and biodiversity in the tropics versus the non-tropics. Old ideas on the nature of zooplankton, which were found to be wider than the `classical' rotifers, cladocerans and copepods, as well as on the number of species in tropical waters, are now beginning to break down accordingly as more and more blank spots in the tropics are explored and as more in-depth studies on the zooplankton of tropical lakes are becoming available. This volume contains a mix of papers discussing the two alternative controls (bottom-up and top-down) of zooplankton community structure and these constitute another step towards a coherent theory of tropical ecosystem theory.
Description: This volume reflects the present state of the study of the Mediterranean as carried out by the Italian scientific community. The papers published in this book have been selected among the communications presented at the First National Congress of Marine Sciences organized by CoNISMa in cooperation with the Italian Association of Oceanography and Limnology (AIOL), the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM) and the Italian Society of Ecology (SItE). The works collected in this volume, after being refereed by senior scientists for different fields of marine research, have been grouped on the basis of the cultural areas corresponding to their contents. However, it is worth underlining that the multidisciplinary character of the papers in this volume creates different "transversal" reading and clustering possibilities that the informed reader is free to design and undertake autonomously.
