CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION iii 



PART 1. THE ECOLOGY OF MARINE COMMUNITIES 1 



Chapter I. Some Principles of the Structure and Development 



of Marine Communities 1 



1. General Ecologic Concepts as Applied to 

 Marine Communities. The Community as a 

 Continuum (K. N. Nesis) 1 



2. The Spatial -Dynamic Aspect of Existence of 

 Pelagic Communities (M. E. Vinogradov) 12 



2.1 Communities in Cold-Water Regions 12 



2.2 Communities of the Tropical Regions 13 



2.3 The Succession of a Pelagic Ecosystem 16 



2.4 Changes in Structural Characteristics 18 



2.5 Changes in Functional Characteristics 20 



3. Nontrophic Regulatory Interactions of Marine 

 Invertebrates (E. A. Zelickman) 24 



3.1 Metabolic Regulation 24 



3.2 Pheromone Regulation 25 



3.3 Interspecific Collective (Group) 



Reactions 27 



3.4 Intraspecific Structures of Behavior 



of a Group of Individuals 31 



3.5 Adaptive Value of Schooling Reactions 32 



Chapter II. Pelagic Zone Communities and Their Structural 



and Functional Characteristics 37 



1. Trophic Relationships in the Pelagic Zone 

 (M. E. Vinogradov, N. V. Parin, A. G. 



Timonin) 37 



2. Communities of the Arctic Waters 



(E. A. Zelickman) 49 



2.1 Comparison of the Arctic Ecosystem 



with Other Productive Systems 50 



2.2 Spatial and Morphophysiol ogic Differ- 

 entiation of Organisms as a Form 



of Transformation of Fluctuations 



within the Arctic Ecosystem 51 



2.3 The Seasonal course of the Process of 

 Production in the Arctic Community 54 



