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Introduction
This book deals with ecology and taxonomy of marine-fouling bryozoans from
the coastal waters off China, which is a generation of the authors' research
results over years.
The monograph contains eight chapters. The first chapter is an introduction
to the marine bryozoan foulers, and was designed to call the gentle readers
of the book (especially younger ecologists working on the marine-fouling
communities) attention to basic characteristics of marine-fouling bryozoans,
on the basis of which such fouling organisms as hydroids, entoprocts and
compound ascidians in the marine-fouling communities are distinguished from
the bryozoan foulers.
The second chapter deals with the fouling bryozoans attaching on buoyes,
bottom-planks and bottom-plates, and underwater structures of fixed ocean
oil platforms. Except for the last artificial substrate, all the sampling
sites on the other man-made underwater objects covered nearly all the coastal
waters off the mainland of China (see text-fig. 13) . Cultures of marine
plants and animals have been growing for the ten years in China. The bryozoan
foulers attaching on the cultured plants (large-sized benthic seaweeds )
and the cultured animals (mainly cultured molluscans and some cultured prawns)
and ones attaching on the floating cages for the cultureshell, the culturefish
and the cultureprawn have become a more and more harmful to the marine culture.
The third and the fourth chapters have been designed respectively to describe
the species compositions and the ecological aspects of the dominant species
characteristics of the bryozoan foulers comprised in the fouling communities
of cultured animals and the floating cages.
The fifth chapter and the sixth chapter have been complied respectively
to explain the patterns of the attachment seasons of the main bryozoan foulers
found in the different coastal waters off China and their depth distribution
trends in the waters. The characteristics of the colony growth given in
the seventh chapter were derived from examining the colony formation processes
of the seven fouling bryozoan species under the laboratory conditions.
The last chapter is a systematic accounts of the fouling bryozoarns found
from the coastal waters off China up to now. The descriptive statements
of every fouling bryozoan species contains the following aspects: citation,
chape and size of the colony, measurements, distributions, biofouling, attachment
season.
Main Contents
1. Introduction
2. Bryozoan foulers on buoyes, on boat hulls and on fixed ocean oil platforms
3. Bryozoan foulers on the cultured molluscans and crustaceans
4. Bryozoans on the floating cages for the culture fish, culture shrimp
and
cultruture molluscans
5. Attachment seasons of marine-bryozoan foulers from the coastal waters
off China
6. Depth distributions of marine-fouling bryozoans in the coastal waters
off China
7. Colony growth of main bryozoan foulers in the Chinese costal waters
8. Morphological characteristics of marine-fouling bryozoans from the Chinese
coastal waters and their biofouling
9. References
10.Index Latian names of taxa
11.Summary
12.Contents
13.Explanations of the Plates
14.The Plates |
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