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Marine Biodiversity: 2005 Publications

Arrigo, K.R.  Marine microorganisms and global nutrient cycles.  Nature 437(7057): 349-355, 2005.

Beasley, I., Robertson, K.M., and Arnold, P.  Description of a new dolphin, the Australian Snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni Sp N. (Cetacea, Delphinidae).  Marine Mammal Science 21(3): 365-400, 2005.

Brown, M.V. and Fuhrman, J.A.  Marine bacterial microdiversity as revealed by internal transcribed spacer analysis.  Aquatic Microbial Ecology 41(1): 15-23, 2005.

Caron, D.A.  Marine microbial ecology in a molecular world: what does the future hold?  Scientia Marina 69(Suppl. 1): 97-110, 2005.
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DeLong, E.F.  Microbial community genomics in the ocean.  Nature Reviews Microbiology 3(6): 459-469, 2005.

DeLong, E.F. and Karl, D.M.  Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography.  Nature 437(7057): 336-342, 2005.

Edgar, G.J., Samson, C.R., and Barrett, N.S.  Species extinction in the marine environment: Tasmania as a regional example of overlooked losses in biodiversity.  Conservation Biology 19(4): 1294-1300, 2005.

Ferreira, C.E.L., Gasparini, J.L., Carvalho, A., and Floeter, S.R.  A recently extinct parrotfish species from Brazil.  Coral Reefs 24(1): 128, 2005.

Filée, J., Tétart, F., Suttle, C.A., and Krisch, H.M.  Marine T4-type bacteriophages, a ubiquitous component of the dark matter of the biosphere.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 102(35): 12471-12476, 2005.

Giovannoni, S.J. and Stingl, U.  Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton.  Nature 437(7057): 343-348, 2005.

Heads, M.  Towards a panbiogeography of the seas.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(4): 675-723, 2005.

Hooper, D.U., Chapin, F.S., Ewel, J.J., Hector, A., Inchausti, P., Lavorel, S., Lawton, J.H., Lodge, D.M., Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Schmid, B., Setala, H., Symstad, A.J., Vandermeer, J., and Wardle, D.A.  Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: A consensus of current knowledge.  Ecological Monographs 75(1): 3-35, 2005.

Ingole, B. and Koslow, J.A.  Deep-sea ecosystems of the Indian Ocean.  Indian Journal of Marine Science 34(1): 27-34, 2005.

Kappel, C.V.  Losing pieces of the puzzle:  threats to marine, estuarine, and diadromous species.  Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 3(5): 275-282, 2005.

Keesing, J. and Irvine, T.  Coastal biodiversity in the Indian Ocean: The known, the unknown and the unknowable.  Indian Journal of Marine Science 34(1): 11-26, 2005.

Lyons, K.G., Brigham, C.A., Traut, B.H., and Schwartz, M.W.  Rare species and ecosystem functioning.  Conservation Biology 19(4): 1019-1024, 2005.

Mayer, A.M.S. and Hamann, M.T.  Marine pharmacology in 2001-2002: Marine compounds with anthelmintic, antibacterial, anticoagulant, antidiabetic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antiplatelet, antiprotozoal, antituberculosis, and antiviral activities; affecting the cardiovascular, immune and nervous systems and other miscellaneous mechanisms of action.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part C 140(3-4): 265-286, 2005.

Mock, T. and Thomas, D.N.  Recent advances in sea-ice microbiology.  Environmental Microbiology 7(5): 605-619, 2005.

Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Burgess, M., Eigenbrod, F., Pickup, N., Olson, V.A., Webster, A.J., Ding, T.S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., and Owens, I.P.F.  Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat.  Nature 436(7053): 1016-1019, 2005.

Ortmann, A.C. and Suttle, C.A.  High abundances of viruses in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system indicates viral mediated microbial mortality.  Deep Sea Research Part I, Oceanographic Research 52(8): 1515-1527, 2005.

Reusch, T.B.H., Ehlers, A., Hämmerli, A., and Worm, B.  Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 102(8): 2826-2831, 2005.

Suttle, C.A.  Viruses in the sea.  Nature 437(7057): 356-361, 2005.

Todo, Y., Kitazato, H., Hashimoto, J., and Gooday, A.J.  Simple foraminifera flourish at the ocean's deepest point.  Science 307(5710): 689, 2005.

Wolff, T.  Composition and endemism of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent fauna.  Cahiers de biologie marine 46(2): 97-104, 2005.