Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world. Yet monitoring water quality in aquatic environments is a challenge, as it varies from hour to hour due to stormwater and currents. Being at the base of the aquatic food web and present in huge numbers, plankton are strongly influenced by changes in environment and provide an indication of water quality integrated over days and weeks. Plankton are the aquatic version of a canary in a coal mine. They are also vital for our existence, providing not only food for fish, seabirds, seals and sharks, but producing oxygen, cycling nutrients, processing pollutants, and removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere.
This second edition of Plankton is a fully updated introduction to the biology, ecology and identification of plankton and their use in monitoring water quality. It includes expanded, illustrated descriptions of all major groups of freshwater, coastal and marine phytoplankton and zooplankton and a new chapter on teaching science using plankton. Best practice methods for plankton sampling and monitoring programs are presented using case studies, along with explanations of how to analyse and interpret sampling data.
Plankton is an invaluable reference for teachers and students, environmental managers, ecologists, estuary and catchment management committees, and coastal engineers.
विषयसूची
Preface
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1: The importance of plankton
Iain M. Suthers, Anthony J. Richardson and David Rissik
2: Plankton processes and the environment
Iain M. Suthers, Anna M. Redden, Lee Bowling, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi and David Rissik
3: Use of plankton for management
David Rissik, Penelope Ajani, Lee Bowling, Mark Gibbs, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kylie Pitt, Anthony J. Richardson and Iain M. Suthers
4: Sampling methods for plankton
Iain M. Suthers, Lee Bowling, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi and David Rissik
5: Freshwater phytoplankton: diversity and biology
Lee Bowling
6: Coastal and marine phytoplankton: diversity and ecology
Penelope Ajani, Ruth Eriksen and David Rissik
7: Freshwater zooplankton: diversity and biology
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Ian A.E. Bayly, Russell J. Shiel and Anthony G. Miskiewicz
8: Coastal and marine zooplankton: identification, biology and ecology
Anthony J. Richardson, Julian Uribe-Palomino, Anita Slotwinski, Frank Coman, Anthony G. Miskiewicz, Peter C. Rothlisberg, Jock W. Young and Iain M. Suthers
9: Educating with plankton
Timothy Roe, Anthony J. Richardson and Iain M. Suthers
Epilogue
Glossary of general terms
Index
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