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Ecological studies of marine and terrestrial systems are usually carried out in separate institutions, published in different journals, and funded from disparate sources. Some of the reasons for these distinctions are understandable. There are obvious differences in the technologies (ships versus jeeps) and in the styles of life of the organisms (gravity is a minor problem in the open ocean). But more important are the differing time scales of processes in the two environments, and of the organisms themselves. Air temperature and rainfall are highly variable on a day-to-day basis, whereas the ocean, below the surface layers, changes much more slowly. Conversely, trees have life cycles that are very much longer than those of the primary producers in the ocean, the phytoplankton.
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Steele, J.H. (1995). Can Ecological Concepts Span the Land and Ocean Domains?. In: Powell, T.M., Steele, J.H. (eds) Ecological Time Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1769-6_2
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