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Boero F, Belmonte G, Fanelli G, et al. The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist?. Trends Ecol Evol. 1996;11(4):177-80doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2.
Boero, F., Belmonte, G., Fanelli, G., Piraino, S., & Rubino, F. (1996). The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist?. Trends in ecology & evolution, 11(4), 177-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2
Boero, F, et al. "The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist?." Trends in ecology & evolution vol. 11,4 (1996): 177-80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2
Boero F, Belmonte G, Fanelli G, Piraino S, Rubino F. The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist?. Trends Ecol Evol. 1996 Apr;11(4):177-80. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2. PMID: 21237800.
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Trends Ecol Evol. 1996 Apr;11(4):177-80. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2.

The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist?.

Trends in ecology & evolution

F Boero, G Belmonte, G Fanelli, S Piraino, F Rubino

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università di Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy.

PMID: 21237800 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2

Abstract

Plankton and benthos are popular concepts identifying two ways of life of aquatic organisms. Their spatial separation led to the development of different sampling techniques and to separate conceptualizations of the principles governing these subsets of the aquatic environment. Reciprocal connections between plankton and benthos, however, are very strong both from a functional (energy fluxes) and a structural (life cycle dynamics) point of view. A full appreciation of such links is forcing marine ecology towards a more integrated approach.

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