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 1.3 Sandy and Silty-Sandy Intertidal Zone 157 



2. The ComiTiLim' ties of Coral Reefs (Yu. I. 



Sorokin) 161 



2.1 Reef-Building Organisms 162 



2.2 Types of Coral Reefs, Their Zonal ity, 

 Growth and Population with Flora and 



Fauna 163 



2.3 Ecologic-Physiologic Peculiarities 



of the Reef-Fonning Corals and Factors 

 Influencing Their Growth and Spread 171 



2.4 Periphyton, Phytobenthos, Primary 

 Production and Microflora in Reef 



Biotopes 177 



2.5 Structure and Productivity of the 



Plankton Community of Coral Reefs 179 



2.6 Nutrition and Food Connections of 



Reef Fauna 183 



2.7 Conclusions 185 



3. Fouling Communities (E. P. Turpaeva) 190 



4. Benthic Shelf Communities (A. A. Neyman) 199 



5. The Trophic Structure of the Benthic 

 Population of the Shelves (A. P. Kuznetsov, 



A. A. Neyman) 204 



6. Communities of Abyssal Macrofauna (Z. A. 

 Filatova) 212 



7. Trophic Structure of the Deep-Water Benthos 



(M. n. Sokolova) 218 



Chapter IV. Production of Marine Communities 228 



1. Primary Production (0. I. Kobl entz-I'li shke, 



V. I. Vedernikov) 228 



1.1 Methodologic Problems 229 



1.2 Comparison of Results of Determination 

 of Parameters of Primary Production 



at the Surface of the Ocean 233 



1.3 Environmental Factors Influencing 



Primary Production 237 



2. Production of Microflora (Yu. I. Sorokin) 256 



2.1 Methodologic Problems 256 



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