Glossary of pelagic biogeography

JOHNSON, ROBERT; ZAHURANEC, BERNARD; BOLTOVSKOY DEMETRIO; PIERROT-BULTS, ANNELIES

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This glossary of terms applicable to Pelagic Biogeography has been prepared as part of the work of SCOR Working Group 93, "Pelagic Biogeography." The decision to prepare such a glossary was made at the first meeting of the Working Group at Amsterdam, 6 - 8 November, 1990. The need to more clearly communicate and utilize common concepts and terminology was in fact evident at the First International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography, where it was not clear that workers were using such essential terms as “biogeography” to convey the same meaning. This Glossary is one attempt by Working Group 93 to address that problem.             The terms are given in alphabetical order in English with a  Spanish translation of the term only when the term  and/or the spelling is different.  An alphabetical list of Spanish terms is given at the end of this document.  The descriptions are given only in English. This list can thus also serve as a dictionary for Spanish speaking people to find the right term in English.             In preparation of this Glossary we have cast our net broadly and include terms applicable in aquatic biogeography sensu lato, including freshwater and coastal ecosystems.             Please note the following abbreviations, used widely: cf         confer: compare with definitions of terms that follow; eg        exempli gratia             for example; qv        quod vide: definition for indicated (preceding) term will extend and clarify             the present definition; syn      synonym             We have not attempted to list names, much less diagnoses, for the taxonomic groups that are the principal players in pelagic biogeography nor the proper names of pelagic biogeographic regions or provinces as used by various authors. To have done so would have greatly increased the size of the Glossary, we believe to the detriment of its usefulness.             Every term we list can be found in use in the literature and defined elsewhere. We have invented nothing, save our own interpretation. The usefulness, if any, of this work is our deliberate effort to bring together terms from what are in fact connected but commonly disparate disciplinary areas - biological oceanography, phylogeny, ecology, physiology, ichthyology, evolutionary biology, physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, biogeography, meteorology, and others. We thank our colleagues for their help in improving this work. The choices and omissions, deliberate or not, as well as the errors, are our own.