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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Scales of Processes and Investigations | 1 |
| 2 | Distribution and Production in the Planktonic Food Web: Largest and Smallest Scales | 9 |
| Ocean Basin and Regional Scales | 10 | |
| Microscales and Fine Scales Relevant to Individual Encounters and Microenvironments | 14 | |
| Small-scale Vertical Distributions | 19 | |
| Vertical Motions and Their Effects on Primary Production | 23 | |
| Other Effects of Internal Waves on Plankton | 31 | |
| Concluding Comment | 34 | |
| 3 | Horizontal Mesoscales and the Planktonic Food Web | 35 |
| Shelf Fronts | 40 | |
| Wakes and Other Effects of Islands and Seamounts | 49 | |
| Oceanic Eddies | 53 | |
| Rhetorical Questions and Comments | 60 | |
| 4 | Larval Ecology and Recruitment of Pelagic Fish in the California Current | 65 |
| Interannual to Interdecadal Scales | 69 | |
| The Smallest Scales | 74 | |
| Vertical Layering and the Event Scale | 80 | |
| Relevance to the Recruitment Problem | 88 | |
| Space on the Mesoscale | 92 | |
| Speculations about Climatic Change Based on El Nino | 95 | |
| 5 | Further Thoughts on Variability in Recruitment | 100 |
| More on Scales | 105 | |
| Variability, Understanding, and Production | 109 | |
| Literature Cited | ||
| Index |