Author: Smidt, Erik L.B.
Title: Animal Production in the Danish Waddensea
Description: Kobenhavn, C.A: Reitzel, 1951. orig.wrappers. 25x20cm, 151 pp, Reprint from: Kommissionen for Danmarks Fiskeri-og Havundersogelser, Meddelelser, Bd. XI, Nr. 6.. Textual graphs,maps,drawings. Some rubbing, small cover tear, inscribed by author, Good+. ¶ University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Contents: Methods & Technique; Topography & Hydrography; The Fishery-Biological Importance of the Waddensea; The Microfauna of the Bottom; The Macrofaunal Species of the Bottom & their Occurence; Life-Histories of the Most Important Species of the Macrofauna of the Bottom; Composition & Variation of the Zooplankton, with Special Reference to the Pelagic Bottom Animal Larvae; Food of the Animal Fauna of the Bottom; Consumers of the Bottom Fauna; The Quantitative Conditions of the Bottom Fauna, with Special Reference to the Young-Plaice Food; The Production of the Wadden Compared with the Production in other Areas; Summary & Future Work.

Keywords: Marine Biology, Waddensea, Bottom Fauna, Pelagic Larvae, Plankton, Zooplankton, Wadden Microfauna, Denmark, Scandinavia