Primary producers in the sea -- Production: the formation of organic matter -- Factors affecting primary production -- Dynamics of Populations of Consumers -- Competition for Resources Among Consumers -- Feeding and Responses to Food Abundance -- Food Selection by Consumers -- Processing of Consumed -- Trophic Structure 1: Controls in Benthic Food Webs -- Trophic Structure 2: Components and Controls in Water Column Food Webs -- Taxonomic Structure: Species Diversity -- Spatial Structure: Patchiness -- Development of Structure in Marine Communities: Colonization and Succession -- The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter -- Nutrient Cycles and Ecosystem Stoichiometry -- Seasonal Changes in Marine Ecosystems -- Long-Term and Large-Scale Change in Marine Ecosystems.