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Aquatic Photosynthesis
Paul G Falkowski and John A Raven

Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly ....

484 pages, illus, figs, tabs.
hardcover | 2007 | £65 | approx. $135/€94
softcover | 2007 | £32.50 | approx. $68/€47


Biology of the Southern Ocean
George A Knox

Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition opens with a description of the physio-chemical environment followed by a logical sequence of chapters covering ....

621 pages, 8 illus, 209 figs, 77 tabs, maps.
hardcover | 2007 | £99 | approx. $205/€142


Chironomidae Larvae
General Ecology and Tanypodinae
Henk J Vallenduuk and Henk K M Moller Pillot

To most people midges are a nuisance-annoying creatures that can spoil a quiet evening or stick to the windscreen of your car in such numbers that you can't see through it. ....

144 pages, col photos, line illus, tabs.
hardcover | 2007 | £69 | approx. $143/€99


Collins Pocket Guide: Freshwater Life of Britain and Northern Europe
Malcolm Greenhalgh and Denys Ovenden

A beautifully illustrated guide to the wide variety of species found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Britain and Europe. ....

256 pages, colour illus.
softcover | 2007 | £19.99 | approx. $42/€29


Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon
The Light and Smith Manual
Edited by James T Carlton

The Fourth Edition of The Light and Smith Manual continues a sixty-five-year tradition of providing to both students and professionals an indispensable, comprehensive, and ....

1001 pages, 485 illus plates, 20 tabs.
hardcover | 2007 | £50 | approx. $104/€72


Unravelling the Algae
The Past, Present, and Future of Algae Systematics
Edited by Juliet Brodie and Jane Lewis

Reviews the state-of-the-science and assesses the impact of molecular tools on the taxonomy of algal groups. It discusses the extent to which these tools extend ....

392 pages, col plates.
hardcover | 2007 | £68.99 | approx. $143/€99


 
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Aquatic Flora & Fauna
 

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 52

Edited by David W Sims

Contents: 1. The Biology of Glass Sponges ....

377 pages | Tabs, figs | Academic Press

Hbk | 2007 | 0123737184 | #166134 | £99.00 approx. $205/€142 add to basket

Aquatic Photosynthesis

Paul G Falkowski and John A Raven

Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly ....

484 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Princeton UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0691115508 | #160390 | £65.00 approx. $135/€94 add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0691115516 | #146925 | £32.50 approx. $68/€47 add to basket

Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae

Edited by CM Young, MA Sewall and ME Rice

The most comprehensive guide to larval form and anatomy ever produced. Each chapter provides a referenced overview of life cycles, reproduction, embryology, larval life, ....

626 pages | Col plates, b\w plates, illus, figs, tabs | Academic Press

Pbk | 2006 | 0123736080 | #160696 | £37.99 approx. $79/€55 add to basket

Atlas des Poissons et des Crustacés d'Eau Douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles

Edited by Philippe Keith, G Marquet, P Valade, P Bosc and E Vigneux

The freshwaters of the Comoros, Mascarenes and Seychelles (three archipelagos of the Western Indian Ocean) harbour a high biodiversity: 61 fish and 22 decapod crustacean ....

250 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Paris MNHN

Pbk | 2006 | 2856535976 | #164361 | £23.95 approx. $50/€35 add to basket

Atlantic Shorelines

Natural History and Ecology

Mark D Bertness

Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. Writing for a broad audience, ....

448 pages | 69 color plates, 327 line illus., 3 tables | Princeton UP

Hbk | 2006 | 0691125538 | #160393 | £65.00 approx. $135/€94 add to basket

Pbk | 2006 | 0691125546 | #160392 | £29.95 approx. $62/€43 add to basket

Biodiversity, Ecophysiology and Conservation of Freshwater Animals

Edited by Jagdish Ojha

This volume includes invited papers contributed in the National Symposium on Perspectives of Biodiversity, Ecophysiology and Conservation of Freshwater Animals, ....

237 pages | Figs, Tabs | Narendra

Hbk | 2005 | 8185375798 | #159966 | £53.00 approx. $110/€76 add to basket

Biology of Intertidal Animals

Richard C Newell

Richard Newell's comprehensive and extremely approachable work on intertidal animals will be invaluable to anyone studying the intertidal zone, and the biology of the ....

CD book for Windows and Mac, with fully searchable text and navigation | Pisces Conservation

CD | 2007 | 1904690491 | #166094 | £25.79 approx. $54/€37 add to basket

Biology of the Southern Ocean

George A Knox

Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition opens with a description of the physio-chemical environment followed by a logical sequence of chapters covering ....

621 pages | 8 illus, 209 figs, 77 tabs, maps | CRC Press

Hbk | 2007 | 0849333946 | #155035 | £99.00 approx. $205/€142 add to basket

British Fresh-Water Copepoda, Volumes I-III

Robert Gurney

Another superb CD-book edition from Pisces Conservation. ....

CD book for Windows and Mac, with fully searchable text and navigation | Pisces Conservation

CD | 2005 | 1904690335 | #157032 | £65.80 approx. $137/€95 add to basket

Bryozoan Studies 2004

Edited by Hugo I Moyano, Juan M Cancino and Patrick N Wyse Jackson

Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology Association conference, Concepcion/Chile, 11-16 January 2004. ....

422 pages | Balkema

Hbk | 2005 | 0415372933 | #155018 | £72.50 approx. $150/€104 add to basket

Chironomidae Larvae

General Ecology and Tanypodinae

Henk J Vallenduuk and Henk K M Moller Pillot

To most people midges are a nuisance-annoying creatures that can spoil a quiet evening or stick to the windscreen of your car in such numbers that you can't see through it. ....

144 pages | Col photos, line illus, tabs | KNNV

Hbk | 2007 | 9050112595 | #169169 | £69.00 approx. $143/€99 add to basket

Cladocera: The genus Daphnia (including Daphniopsis)

John AH Benzie

368 pages | 234 plates | Backhuys

Pbk | 2005 | 9057821516 | #157011 | £67.00 approx. $139/€97 add to basket

Cladocera: Family Ilyocryptidae (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda)

AA Kotov and P Stifter

172 pages | 79 plates | Backhuys

Pbk | 2006 | 9057821672 | #157012 | £40.50 approx. $84/€59 add to basket

Cold Ocean Physiology

Edited by HO Pörtner and Richard C Playle

Summarises information on the adaptations exhibited by representatives of the main groups of polar animals, including marine invertebrates, fish, mammals and birds, at ....

498 pages | 6 b/w photos, 75 line illus, 38 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1998 | 0521580781 | #071088 | £130.00 approx. $269/€187 add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0521039681 | #170524 | £42.99 approx. $89/€62 add to basket

Collins Pocket Guide: Freshwater Life of Britain and Northern Europe

Malcolm Greenhalgh and Denys Ovenden

A beautifully illustrated guide to the wide variety of species found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Britain and Europe. ....

256 pages | colour illus. | Harper Collins

Pbk | 2007 | 0007177771 | #158058 | £19.99 approx. $42/€29 add to basket

Coral

A Pessimist in Paradise

Steve Jones

While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This ....

256 pages | 6 illus | Little, Brown

Hbk | 2007 | 0316729388 | #166960 | £15.99 approx. $34/€23 add to basket

Coral Reefs and Climate Change

Science and Management

JT Phinney et al

Coral reefs are among the most beautiful and bountiful of nature's achievement in the oceans. Not only do coral reefs host the ocean's greatest biodiversity, they contain ....

244 pages | diagrams | AGU

Hbk | 2006 | 0875903592 | #159269 | £62.99 approx. $131/€91 add to basket

Coral Reef Fishes

Indo-Pacific and Caribbean

Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers

Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species, this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs ....

400 pages | illus | Princeton UP

Pbk | NYP 11/2007 | 0691089957 | #158912 | £16.95 approx. $36/€25 add to basket

Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico

John Wesley Tunnell

Mexican and US experts assess the current state of these fragile systems and offer a framework for their restoration. Beginning with a history of the research done in this ....

256 pages | 181 col photos | Texas A&M UP

Hbk | NYP 11/2007 | 1585446173 | #169275 | £31.95 approx. $67/€46 add to basket

The Deep

The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Edited by Clare Nouvian

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters-the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has ....

256 pages | 220 col plates | Chicago UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0226595668 | #165241 | £22.99 approx. $48/€33 add to basket

Diatoms of Lakes Prespa and Ohrid

Volume 16: Biogeography - Ecology - Taxonomy

Zlatko Levkov, Svetislav Krstic, Ditmar Metzeltin and Teofil Nakov

Offers the results of a three year basic taxonomical research in the area. A total of 500 taxa is presented, 70 being described as new taxa ( 1 new genus, 66 species and 3 ....

613 pages | 220 plates with 2593 figures | Gantner

Hbk | 2007 | 3906166430 | #165732 | £126.00 approx. $261/€181 add to basket

Diatoms of North America

The Freshwater Flora of Cape Cod

Peter A Siver, Paul B Hamilton, K Stachura-Suchoples and JP Kociolek

463 pages | 94 photographic plates | Koeltz

Hbk | 2005 | 3906166171 | #154013 | £116.00 £86.95 approx. $180/€125 add to basket

Diatoms of Uruguay

Ditmar Metzeltin, Lange-Bertalot, Horst Lange and Felipe Garcia

Bilingual English-Spanish. ....

737 pages | 241 plates | Koeltz

Hbk | 2005 | 3906166252 | #154014 | £121.95 £90.95 approx. $188/€131 add to basket

Diving with Giants

The World's Best Pelagic Dives

Edited by Jack Jackson

"Diving with Giants" features the best places in the world's oceans and seas to dive with pelagic species. 'Pelagic' is a real buzzword for divers, and refers to the big, ....

160 pages | 180 col photos | New Holland

Hbk | 2006 | 1845371801 | #160782 | £29.99 approx. $62/€43 add to basket

A Diver's Guide to Reef Life

Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari

A Diver's Guide to Reef Life is set to become the indispensable companion for reef divers wishing to identify, photograph or learn about the myriad of fascinating ....

478 pages | 1400 colour photos | Nautilus

Hbk | 2006 | 9832731011 | #157732 | £30.00 approx. $63/€43 add to basket

A Divers Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife

Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari

Essential field guide for all serious macro divers (those interested in small marine species) from the Maldives to Australia. Identifies and describes 600 Indo-Pacific ....

468 pages | 800 col photos | Nautilus

Hbk | 2003 | 9832731003 | #140058 | £30.00 approx. $63/€43 add to basket

Ecology of Phytoplankton

Colin Reynolds

Communities of microscopic plant life, or phytoplankton, dominate the Earth's aquatic ecosystems. This important new book by Colin Reynolds covers the adaptations, physiology ....

564 pages | 132 line diagrams, 5 half-tones, 37 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2006 | 0521844134 | #156101 | £90.00 approx. $187/€129 add to basket

Pbk | 2006 | 0521605199 | #156102 | £47.99 approx. $100/€69 add to basket

Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores

Edited by Mark W Denny and Steven D Gaines

Tidepools and rocky shores are among the most physically stressful environments on earth. When the tide is high, waves can sweep over plants and animals at velocities as ....

705 pages | 512 col illus, 202 line illus, 22 tabs | California UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0520251180 | #168276 | £56.00 approx. $116/€81 add to basket

Evaluation Rapide de la Biodiversite Marine des Recifs Coralliens du Mont Panie, Province Nord, Nouvelle Caledonie

Sheila A McKenna et al

This French-language volume presents the results of a marine expedition to the coral reefs in the Mont Panie region of New Caledonia. Alongside an account of the region's ....

128 pages | Conservation International

Pbk | 2007 | 1881173976 | #168310 | £12.99 approx. $27/€19 add to basket

Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea

Paul Falkowski and Andrew Knoll

This text reference examines how photosynthesis evolved on Earth and how phytoplankton evolved through time - ultimately to permit the evolution of complex life, including ....

441 pages | Figs, tabs | Academic Press

Hbk | 2007 | 0123705185 | #168029 | £49.99 approx. $104/€72 add to basket

Fauna en Flora Zeeland

Onderwatergids

R Sheridan and C Massin

Diver's guide to the flora and fauna of Zeeland. ....

327 pages | Photos | Nelos

Pbk | 2005 | 9080918423 | #164074 | £44.00 approx. $91/€64 add to basket

Great British Marine Animals

Paul Naylor

From the basking shark - the second largest fish in the world, to the tiny but dazzlingly colourful jewel anemone, a spectacular array of animals live in Britain's ....

272 pages | 425 col photos, 7 line illus | Sound Diving Publications

Pbk | 2005 | 0952283158 | #151672 | £15.00 approx. $32/€22 add to basket

Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna

Edited by D Desbruyeres, Michel Segonzac and Monica Bright

The second extensively expanded edition of the "Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna" gives on overview of our current knowledge on the animals living at hydrothermal ....

544 pages | illus | Biologiezentrum

Hbk | 2006 | 3854741545 | #160091 | £55.00 approx. $114/€79 add to basket

Hawaiian Reef Plants

John M Huisman, Isabella A Abbott and Celia M Smith

Hawaiian Reef Plants is an easy-to-use yet comprehensive guide on nearly all species of marine plants present in Hawai`i accompanied by colour photographs and illustrations. ....

264 pages | colour photos | University of Hawaii Sea Grant

Pbk | 2007 | 1929054041 | #166939 | £20.95 approx. $44/€31 add to basket

The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Marine Fish & Sea Creatures

Amy-Jane Beer and Derek Hall

The marine habitats of the world are home to a more varied and concentrated array of animal life than anywhere on dry land. As marine scientists begin to penetrate even the ....

256 pages | 1000 col photos, distribution maps | Lorenz Books

Hbk | 2007 | 0754817253 | #163029 | £16.99 approx. $36/€25 add to basket

An Introduction to Hydrozoa

Edited by Jean Bouillon, C Gravili, F Pagès, JM Gili and F Boero

Hydrozoa occur in all aquatic habitats. They form part of the plankton, the hardand soft-bottom macrobenthos, and the meiofauna. They can also be symbiotic with a wide ....

591 pages | 231 figures | Paris MNHN

Hbk | 2006 | 2856535801 | #164360 | £75.00 approx. $156/€108 add to basket

Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon

The Light and Smith Manual

Edited by James T Carlton

The Fourth Edition of The Light and Smith Manual continues a sixty-five-year tradition of providing to both students and professionals an indispensable, comprehensive, and ....

1001 pages | 485 illus plates, 20 tabs | California UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0520239393 | #165374 | £50.00 approx. $104/€72 add to basket

Manual on Aquatic Cyanobacteria

A Photo Guide and a Synopsis of their Toxicology

G Cronberg and H Annadotter

Potentially harmful cyanobacteria occur widespread in the aquatic environment and this manual treats their taxonomy, identification, and toxicology across freshwater, brackish ....

110 pages | colour illus | Gertrud Cronberg

Pbk | 2006 | 8799082705 | #162235 | £33.50 approx. $70/€49 add to basket

Marine Biology

Peter Castro and Michael E Huber

Introductory textbook. Covers the basics of marine biology with a global approach using examples from numerous regions and ecosystems worldwide. ....

452 pages | 341 col photos, 286 illus, tabs | Wm C Brown

Hbk | 2006 | 0071107886 | #160249 | £45.99 approx. $96/€66 add to basket

Pbk | 2006 | 007110593X | #168820 | £0.00 approx. $0/€0 add to basket

Marine Life of Fiji & Tonga DVD

A Video Identification Guide

Josh Jensen and Liz Harlin

This Video ID Guide covers the incredible biodiversity of this fantastic diving region. It contains video clips of almost every species of marine plant and animal the authors ....

14 pages | Running Time: 218 Minutes, (2 Disc Set) | Undersea Productions

DVD | 2007 | #166986 | £20.95 approx. $44/€31 add to basket

Marine Life of the Galapagos

The Diver's Guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and Marine Invertebrates

Pierre Constant

Thoroughly revised second edition of the definite diver's guide to the Galapagos. Based on the author's numerous trips to the archipelago, this is a highly illustrated guide, ....

307 pages | 288 col photos, b/w illus, maps | Odyssey

Pbk | 2007 | 9622177670 | #163510 | £15.95 approx. $33/€23 add to basket

Marine Plankton - A Practical Guide

GE Newell and RC Newell

Newell & Newell's "Marine Plankton" was first published in 1963, with the 5th edition published in 1977. With 56 black and white plates, this is a first-class reference work ....

CD book for Windows and Mac, with fully searchable text and navigation | Pisces Conservation

CD | 2006 | 1904690416 | #160099 | £23.44 approx. $49/€34 add to basket

The Mesoscale Structure of the Epipelagic Ecosystem of the Open Northern Arabian Sea

Edited by K Banse and SA Piontkovsky

Presents the results of the 30th cruise of R/V Professor Vodyanitsky of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas (IBSS) in February-April 1990, the last ....

248 pages | diagrams | Universities Press

Pbk | 2006 | 8173714967 | #165801 | £24.95 approx. $52/€36 add to basket

Monitoring in Coastal Environments Using Foraminifera and Thecamoebian Indicators

DB Scott, C Schafer and F Medioli

Foraminifera and thecamoebians are highly sensitive to environmental stress (natural or anthropogenic). This feature means that they can be used to biologically characterize a ....

177 pages | B/w photos, figs tabs, maps | CUP

Hbk | 2001 | 0521561736 | #111458 | £80.00 approx. $166/€115 add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0521021146 | #166078 | £24.99 approx. $52/€36 add to basket

Monitoring Rocky Shores

Steven N Murray, Richard F Ambrose and Megan N Dethier

Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical. This sensitive habitat at the interface of land and ocean may well be the marine ....

220 pages | 19 b/w photos, 32 line illus | California UP

Hbk | 2006 | 0520247280 | #154500 | £29.95 approx. $62/€43 add to basket

Moostiere (Bryozoa) / Moss Animals (Bryozoa)

Edited by Emmy R Wöss

Contributions to the biology and ecology of freshwater bryozoans. ....

369 pages | colour illus | Biologiezentrum

Hbk | 2005 | 3854741383 | #158081 | £49.95 approx. $104/€72 add to basket

Movement and Energy Metabolism of Marine Planktonic Organisms

EV Pavlova

This monograph generalizes multi-year investigations on the energy metabolism and motility of marine planktonic organisms, from flagellated algae to salps, from different ....

216 pages | diagrams | Universities Press

Pbk | 2006 | 8173714959 | #165803 | £26.95 approx. $56/€39 add to basket

Neptune's Ark

From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

David Rains Wallace

Neptune's Ark illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging ....

282 pages | 25 line illus | California UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0520243226 | #165355 | £16.95 approx. $36/€25 add to basket

A New Key to the Freshwater Bryozoans of Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe

with Notes on their Ecology

Timothy S Wood and Beth Okamura

Bryozoans are small, filter-feeding animals that live in colonies attached to all kinds of substrata in a variety of habitats. Some 'moss animals' form slender, chitinous, ....

113 pages | B\w photos, illus | FBA

Pbk | 2005 | 090038672X | #153531 | £19.95 approx. $42/€29 add to basket

The Northern Adriatic Ecosystem

Deep Time in a Shallow Sea

Frank K McKinney

The northern Adriatic Sea is transient, depending on the stage of the glacial cycle. Its present iteration has only existed for a few thousand years, yet it hosts a range of ....

299 pages | 47 halftones, 49 line drawings, 27 tabs | Columbia UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0231132425 | #165397 | £38.50 approx. $80/€56 add to basket

Ocean

The World's Last Wilderness Revealed

Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Eales, Fabien Cousteau et al

Explore the last wilderness left on Earth. From mangrove swamp to ocean floor, mollusc to manatee, Atlantic Conveyer to Hurricane Katrina, unravel the mysteries of the sea. ....

512 pages | Col illus | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | 2006 | 1405312920 | #161515 | £29.99 approx. $62/€43 add to basket

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 45

Edited by RN Gibson, RJA Atkinson and JDM Gordon

Reflecting the increasing interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental issues, "Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review" provides ....

547 pages | Tabs, figs | CRC Press

Hbk | 2007 | 1420050931 | #164494 | £99.00 approx. $205/€142 add to basket

Oceanic Wilderness

Mysteries of the Silent Deep

Roger Steene

An exploration of the incredible delights to be found in the world's oceans. Visiting geographic extremities from the Caribbean to the East Pacific, Japan to the South and ....

312 pages | 518 photos | New Holland

Hbk | 2006 | 1843309122 | #149535 | £34.99 approx. $73/€51 add to basket

Phaeocystis, Major Link in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Climate- Relevant Elements

Edited by MA van Leeuwe, J Stefels, S Belviso, C Lancelot, PG Verity and WWC Gieskes

The ubiquitous marine microalgal species Phaeocystis plays an important role in biogeochemical cycles. Phaeocystis has a complicated life cycle, which makes it hard to ....

330 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Springer

Hbk | 2007 | 1402062133 | #168198 | £57.50 approx. $119/€83 add to basket

Les Planches Inédites de Poisson et Autres Animaux Marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius

Lipke B Holthuis and Theodore W Pietsch

The archives of the world's libraries and museums are filled with little seen and under-appreciated treasures, but few objects are as exquisite and unknown as the ....

292 pages | 93 col plates, figs | Paris MNHN

Hbk | 2006 | 2856535925 | #161930 | £61.00 approx. $127/€88 add to basket

Poissons de l'Océan Indien

et de la Mer Rouge

Marc Taquet and Alain Diringer

An identification guide to 850 species of fish found in depths up to 60m in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Includes 1200 colour photos and an indentification key. Each ....

528 pages | 1200 colour photos | Quae

Pbk | 2007 | 2759200450 | #170390 | £43.00 approx. $89/€62 add to basket

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Diatom Symposium Miedzyzdroje, Poland 2nd - 7th September 2004

Edited by Andrzej Witkowski

508 pages | Biopress

Hbk | 2006 | 0948737751 | #161476 | £150.00 approx. $311/€215 add to basket

Reefs Revealed

Alex Mustard

This pioneering new volume of underwater photography reveals the coral reefs of the world as you have never seen them before, through revolutionary natural-light filter ....

192 pages | 150 photos | Constable

Hbk | 2007 | 1845296346 | #168002 | £29.99 approx. $62/€43 add to basket

River Plants

The Macrophytic Vegetation of Watercourses

SM Haslam

Rivers provide a fascinating and complex environment for plants and this book gives a full-length account of their vegetation. It offers a coherent account of river plants in ....

450 pages | over 100 line drawings | Forrest Text

Pbk | 2006 | 0955074045 | #162796 | £25.00 approx. $52/€36 add to basket

Rotifera Part 1: Biology, Ecology and Systematics

Robert L Wallace, Terry W Snell, Claudia Ricci and Thomas Nogrady

New edition of the 4th volume in this series (Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World), this book summarizes the ....

299 pages | 107 figs, 4 tables, 1 plate | Backhuys

Pbk | 2006 | 9057821788 | #159229 | £61.00 approx. $127/€88 add to basket

Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation

Edited by Anthony WD Larkum, Robert J Orth and Carlos M Duarte

Seagrasses are unique plants; the only group of flowering plants to recolonise the sea. They occur on every continental margin, except Antarctica, and form ecosystems which ....

691 pages | - | Springer

Hbk | 2006 | 140202942X | #152748 | £62.00 approx. $129/€89 add to basket

Sea of Cortez Marine Invertebrates

A Guide for the Pacific Coast, Mexico to Ecuador

A Kerstitch

This new, updated edition describes with text and photos 303 species of invertebrates that are found in the Sea of Cortez and as far south as Peru. Includes size, habitat and ....

120 pages | 283 col photos, line illus | Sea Challengers

Pbk | 2007 | 0930118413 | #157029 | £23.95 approx. $50/€35 add to basket

Seashore Life of the Caribbean

Alick Jones and Sarah Jones

Caribbean seashores offer that magic mixture of sun, sand and sparkling sea. To stroll along the beach at sunset with the promise of a rum punch and perhaps a dinner of flying ....

200 pages | colour photos | Macmillan Caribbean

Pbk | 2005 | 1405007605 | #158388 | £8.25 approx. $18/€12 add to basket

Sea Stars

Echinoderms of the Asia / Indo-Pacific - Identification, Biodiversity, Zoology

Neville Coleman

Comprehensive photo identification guide to the living Echinoderms of the Asia/Indo -Pacific Region. Includes taxonomic identifications by world authorities and information ....

136 pages | over 1250 colour photos | Neville Coleman

Pbk | 2007 | 0947325409 | #164516 | £28.50 approx. $59/€41 add to basket

The Silent Deep

The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea

Julian Anthony Koslow

For hundreds of years, both scientists and novices alike underestimated the enormous diversity and richness of life in the deep sea. Ancient philosopher Pliny, for instance, ....

270 pages | 16 col plates, 75 halftones | Chicago UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0226451259 | #165253 | £22.50 approx. $47/€33 add to basket

Sounds of the Deep

An Exploration of Life in our Seas

CD of wildlife recordings from the British Library Sound Archive. ....

Duration: 67 minutes | NSA

CD | 2007 | 0712305262 | #165554 | £9.95 approx. $21/€15 add to basket

Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Band 7/2-1: Chelicerata

Araneae, Acari I

Chelicerata are a basically terrestrial group of invertebrates, including many clades whose representatives have never found an evolutionary way to aquatic life. An exception ....

400 pages | 148 b&w illus | Spektrum

Pbk | 2006 | 3827416930 | #039494 | £149.00 approx. $308/€214 add to basket

Tropical Diatoms of South America, II

Special Remarks on Biogeographic Disjunction

Ditmar Metzeltin and Horst Lange-Bertalot

Covers geographically the area from Paraguay to continental Central America, Caribbean Islands and Florida. 190 taxa are described as new to science (in addition to the 202 ....

877 pages | 298 plates with 3688 figures | Gantner

Hbk | 2007 | 3906166570 | #165734 | £150.00 approx. $311/€215 add to basket

Underwater Eden

365 Days

Jeffrey L Rotman

Features undersea photography taken by Jeff Rotman, who has spent over thirty years photographing life in our planet's seas and oceans. This title includes a variety of ....

744 pages | 365 colour illus | Abrams

Hbk | 2007 | 0810993112 | #165818 | £19.95 approx. $42/€29 add to basket

Wild Seas, Secret Shores of Africa

Thomas P Peschak

This book is an underwater journey around the African coast, richly portrayed in more than 145 photographs that draw us into a breathtakingly beautiful and sometimes strange ....

184 pages | 145 Photos | Struik

Hbk | 2007 | 1770075909 | #169231 | £16.99 approx. $36/€25 add to basket

World of Water Wildlife Guide: Maldives, Indian Ocean

Neville Coleman

A comprehensive wildlife guide to the Maldives. Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups- from algae to marine mammals. ....

80 pages | over 550 colour photos | Neville Coleman

Pbk | 2006 | 0947325379 | #164128 | £12.95 approx. $27/€19 add to basket

World of Water Wildlife Guide: Seychelles

Indian Ocean

Neville Coleman

A comprehensive marine life guide to the Seychelles. Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups - from algae to marine mammals. Simple layout, easy to read text with ....

80 pages | Over 550 colour photos, 1 map | Neville Coleman

Pbk | 2006 | 0947325360 | #164125 | £13.50 approx. $28/€20 add to basket

 
 
Algae
 

Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe

Edited by R J Stevenson, Y Pan, J P Kociolek and J C Kingston

Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe was written by students and colleagues of Rex Lowe to acknowledge his esteemed career that included ....

249 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2006 | 1402047827 | #161385 | £100.00 approx. $207/€144 add to basket

Advances in Phycological Studies

Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dobrina Temniskova-Topalova

Edited by N Ognjanova-Rumenova and K Manoylov

The Festschrift to honour Prof. Dobrina Temniskova-Topalova's 70th birthday includes articles by some of her current and former students, colleagues, collaborators, and ....

384 pages | photos, graphs, tables | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422606 | #161854 | £70.00 approx. $145/€101 add to basket

Los Albores de la Botánica Marina Española (1814-1939)

Francisco Javier Dosil Mancilla

Oulines the history of phycology in Spain. ....

389 pages | illus | CSIC

Pbk | 2007 | 8400085183 | #168403 | £37.50 approx. $78/€54 add to basket

Algae

Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology

Laura Barsanti and Paolo Gualtieri

Covers the most important taxa and structures for freshwater, marine, and terrestrial forms of algae. It offers comprehensive coverage on topics ranging from algae's ....

301 pages | illus | CRC Press

Hbk | 2006 | 0849314674 | #146273 | £68.99 approx. $143/€99 add to basket

Algae of Australia: Batrachospermales, Thoreales, Oedogoniales and Zygnemaceae

Timothy J Entwisle, Stephen Skinner, Simon H Lewis and Helen J Foard

Red algae and filamentous green algae are important components of Australian freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, swamps, farm dams and damp soil. Some ....

191 pages | Photos, illus | CSIRO

Hbk | 2007 | 0643094318 | #166924 | £43.50 approx. $90/€63 add to basket

Algae of Australia: Introduction

Edited by Patrick M McCarthy and Anthony E Orchard

This introductory volume includes essays on the history of research on Australian algae, their classification, fossil record, systematic relationships, ecology, biogeography and ....

744 pages | b&w illus | CSIRO

Hbk | 2007 | 064309377X | #165720 | £86.50 approx. $179/€124 add to basket

Algae of Australia: Nemaliales

John M Huisman

The marine algae are plants of considerable biological and economic importance. The Nemaliales, one of the most diverse and significant orders of red algae in Australian ....

164 pages | colour photos, illus | CSIRO

Hbk | 2006 | 0643093788 | #162917 | £43.50 approx. $90/€63 add to basket

Algal Cultures, Analogues of Blooms and Applications

DV Subba Rao

A thematic volume with recent developments in micro algal research, this book incorporates the latest findings specifically to address how best algal cultures can be ....

954 pages | 2 volumes | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | 2006 | 1578083931 | #157810 | £71.70 approx. $149/€103 add to basket

Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments

Edited by Joseph Seckbach

A unique collection of essays, contributed by leading scientists from around the world, devoted to algae - and some related microbes - observed in unexpected harsh habits, ....

811 pages | Figs, tabs, b/w photos | Springer

Hbk | 2007 | 1402061110 | #168629 | £199.00 approx. $412/€286 add to basket

Algal Culturing Techniques

Edited by Robert A Andersen

A comprehensive reference on all aspects of the isolation and cultivation of marine and freshwater algae, including seaweeds. It is divided into seven parts that cover history, ....

578 pages | Color photos, illus, tabs | Academic Press

Hbk | 2005 | 0120884267 | #151589 | £49.99 approx. $104/€72 add to basket

Algae of Ukraine, Volume 1

Cyanoprocaryota, Euglenophyta, Chrysophyta, Xanthophyta, Raphidophyta, Phaeophyta, Dinophyta, Cryptophyta, Glaucostophyta, and Rhodophyta

OV Borisova et al

The first of a scheduled 2 volume set on the algae of the Ukraine. The present volume covers 967 genera and 4942 species (5905 infra- specific taxa). For each taxon ....

712 pages | maps, plates | Gantner

Hbk | 2006 | 3906166449 | #158346 | £63.50 approx. $132/€91 add to basket

Antarctic Marine Protists

Edited by FJ Scott and J Marchant

A comprehensive guide to the protists that live in the surface waters and sea-ice south of the Antarctic Polar Front. More than 550 species are described and superbly ....

563 pages | B/w photo's and illus | ABRS

Hbk | 2005 | 0642568359 | #150560 | £59.99 approx. $124/€86 add to basket

Bacillariophyceae from Karstic Wetlands in Mexico

Dedicated to Dr. Arturo Gómez-Pompa

Eberto Novelo, Rosaluz Tavera and Claudia Ibarra

This publication describes the diatom flora of freshwater environments from karstic wetlands from El Eden Ecological Reserve, Mexico. Environmental parameters and latitude ....

136 pages | 3 figures, 21 plates | Gebrder Borntraeger

Pbk | 2007 | 3443570453 | #169570 | £48.50 approx. $101/€70 add to basket

Blue-Green Algae of the British Isles: An Interactive Key

Version 2.1

B.A Whitton

The aim of the CD-ROM Blue-Green Algae of the British Isles is to aid the identification of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) present in terrestrial, freshwater and marine field ....

CD-ROM with licence number and manual | University of Durham

CD | 2003 | #157992 | £41.13 approx. $86/€59 add to basket

A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland

Gavin Hardy, Michael D Guiry and Henry Arnold

Second corrected edition of the essential reference on the seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. ....

437 pages | 629 maps, 2 figs, 2 tables | British Phycological Society

Hbk | 2006 | 390616635X | #152583 | £77.00 approx. $160/€111 add to basket

Coastal Plankton

Photo Guide for European Seas

Otto Larink and Wilfried Westheide

This book, with more than 600 micro- and 40 macrophotographs on 60 colour plates, is an introduction to the most important and most common taxa present in the plankton, and it ....

143 pages | 60 colour photo plates | Pfeil

Pbk | 2006 | 3899370627 | #158068 | £22.50 approx. $47/€33 add to basket

Common Seaweeds of the Gulf of California / Algas Communes del Golfo de California

Mark D Readdie, Marla Randelletti and Richard M McCourt

This field guide describes 78 of the most common seaweeds found in the gulf of California. The description for each species includes a photograph, detailed ....

105 pages | colour photos | Sea Challengers

Pbk | 2006 | 0930118383 | #157028 | £19.99 approx. $42/€29 add to basket

Diatom Monographs: Volume 7: Ecological Analysis of Periphytic Diatoms in Mediterranean Coastal Wetlands

(Empordà wetlands, NE Spain)

Pujadas, Rosa Trobajo

Diatoms are an important and often dominant component of periphyton, and their contribution to primary production in aquatic systems has largely been underestimated. ....

210 pages | 123 micrographs on 16 plates | Gantner

Hbk (Region 0) | 2007 | 390616652X | #166006 | £61.00 approx. $127/€88 add to basket

Diatom Monographs, Volume 8: The Paleoecology of Lake Zeribar and Surrounding Areas, Western Iran, During the last 48,000 Years

Edited by K Wasylikova and A Witkowski

370 pages | figures, 39 photo plates | Gantner

Hbk | 2007 | 3906166554 | #168469 | £91.00 approx. $189/€131 add to basket

Ecology of Harmful Algae

Edited by Edna Graneli and Jefferson T Turner

Harmful algal blooms are one of the consequences of the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, particularly the process of eutrophication. They can cause a variety of ....

413 pages | Tabs, figs, col photos | Springer

Hbk | 2006 | 3540322094 | #158257 | £100.00 approx. $207/€144 add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 3540740090 | #169733 | £40.50 approx. $84/€59 add to basket

Flora of the Bluegreen Algae of the Netherlands

The non-filamentous species of inland waters

Anton MT Joosten

The Netherlands are a small country, characterized by a large diversity of fresh to slightly brackish, oligo- to hypereutrophic stagnant and flowing inland waters. This ....

240 pages | KNNV

Hbk | 2006 | 9050112420 | #163518 | £79.00 approx. $164/€114 add to basket

The Freshwater Algae of China

Systematics, Taxonomy and Ecology

Edited by Hu Hongjun and Wei Yinxin

This monograph describes 1572 species of freshwater algae of China. For each species, the ecology and biological features, biological environment are described. Also for each ....

1023 pages | illus | Science Press

Hbk | 2006 | 7030166337 | #164405 | £84.00 approx. $174/€121 add to basket

Freshwater Cyanoprokaryota of North-Eastern Australia, Volume 1: Oscillatoriales

GB McGregor

Cyanoprokaryotes (also known as cyanobacteria or blue-green algae) can form a significant component of benthic, periphytic and floating microphytic assemblages across ....

124 pages | ABRS

Pbk | 2007 | 0642568537 | #170360 | £23.50 approx. $49/€34 add to basket

The Fusarium Laboratory Manual

John F Leslie and Brett A Summerell

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a comprehensive collection of photographs and descriptions of the fungal genus Fusarium is available. This laboratory manual provides ....

388 pages | illus | Blackwell

Spiralbound | 2006 | 0813819199 | #147865 | £75.00 approx. $156/€108 add to basket

Golden Algae: A Biology of Chrysophytes

Jorgen Kristiansen

This book gives an overview of the state of the art in chrysophyte research, how our knowledge has expanded and what problems are in focus now.It shows the importance of the ....

167 pages | Illus | Koeltz

Hbk | 2005 | 3906166236 | #154015 | £61.00 approx. $127/€88 add to basket

Green Algae of the British Isles

An Interactive Key to the Commoner Genera and Species

B.A Whitton

The aim of the CD-ROM Freshwater Green Algae of the British Isles is to aid the identification of green algae, especially those important in environmental monitoring ....

1 CD with serial number and installation notes | University of Durham

CD | 2002 | 0953884236 | #156954 | £41.13 approx. $86/€59 add to basket

Guide des Algues des Mers d'Europe

J Cabioc'h, J-Y Floc'h, A Le Toquin, C-F Bourdouresque, A Meinesz and M Verlaque

Describes 230 species of algae found in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. ....

272 pages | 220 col photos | Delachaux et Niestle

Hbk | 2006 | 260301384X | #160900 | £32.00 approx. $67/€46 add to basket

Guide to the Seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal

O De Clerck et al

This guide represents the first attempt to introduce the marine benthic macroalgae of KwaZulu-Natal to a larger public. The focus is on the larger macroalgae growing in the ....

294 pages | colour photos | National BG

Pbk | 2005 | 9072619641 | #158532 | £37.00 approx. $77/€54 add to basket

A Handbook of the British Seaweeds

Lily Newton

Lily Newton's 'Handbook of the British Seaweeds' is a thorough account of the salt and brackish water algae, from the smallest parasitic species to the great kelps, which will ....

Figs | Pisces Conservation

CD | 2007 | 190469053X | #169783 | £37.01 approx. $77/€54 add to basket

Microalgal Biology, Evolution and Ecology

Volume dedicated to Professor Frank E. Round

Edited by Richard M Crawford, Brian Moss, David G Mann and Hans R Preisig

391 pages | 466 figures, 35 tables, 17 plates | Gebrder Borntraeger

Pbk | 2006 | 3443510523 | #160535 | £124.00 approx. $257/€178 add to basket

Monograph on Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae in Slovenia / Monografija sladkovodnih in kopenskih alg v Sloveniji

D Vrhovsek, G Kosi, A Krivograd Klemencic and N Smolar-Zvanut

Presents a synthesis of new and known information on the biodiversity of cyanobacteria and algae in Slovenia. ....

172 pages | ZRC

Pbk | 2006 | 9616568485 | #166099 | £16.95 approx. $36/€25 add to basket

Picture Book and Ecology of the Freshwater Diatoms

Toshiharu Watanabe et al

666 pages | plates | Uchida Rokakuho

Hbk | 2005 | 4753640477 | #156467 | £224.00 approx. $464/€321 add to basket

Plankton

A Guide to their Ecology and Monitoring for Water Quality

Iain M Suthers and David Rissik

Plankton serves as a tool for measuring water quality. While some guidelines have been developed for the collection and monitoring of freshwater algae (Algal Watch), there are ....

232 pages | Col illus | CSIRO

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0643090584 | #165694 | £22.95 approx. $48/€33 add to basket

Portraits of Marine Algae: An Historical Perspective

Micahel J Wynne

The author pays homage to students of marine algae from the 1760's to the early 1900's. For each author of a work on seaweeds a biographical sketch, sample illustrations (most ....

180 pages | colour plates | Michigan Herbarium

Hbk | 2006 | 0962073377 | #161193 | £57.50 approx. $119/€83 add to basket

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Edited by RJ Anderson, JA Brodie, E Onsoyen and AT Critchley

"The Proceedings of the 18th International Seaweed Symposium" provides an invaluable reference to a wide range of fields in applied phycology. Papers cover topics as diverse ....

474 pages | diagrams | Springer

Hbk | 2007 | 1402056699 | #164982 | £92.50 approx. $192/€133 add to basket

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 2/2: Bacillariophyceae 2.Teil

Bacillariaceae, Epithemiaceae, Surirellaceae

K Krammer and H Lange-Bertalot

Reprint edition of the original (1988) first edition. ....

596 pages | 184 tabs, 1,914 figs. | Gustav Fischer

Pbk | 2007 | 3827419123 | #167114 | £89.00 approx. $184/€128 add to basket

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 2/1: Bacillariophyceae 1.Teil

Naviculaceae

K Krammer and H Lange-Bertalot

Reprint edition of the original (1986) first edition. ....

876 pages | 2976 photos & figs, 206 tabs | Spektrum

Pbk | 2007 | 3827419115 | #167113 | £95.50 approx. $198/€137 add to basket

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 19/1: Cyanoprokaryota

Chroococcales

J Komarek and K Anagnostidis

548 pages | 700 b/w illus | Gustav Fischer

Hbk | 2007 | 3827408903 | #030220 | £79.00 approx. $164/€114 add to basket

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 18: Charales (Charophyceae)

Werner Krause

202 pages | 77 illus | Spektrum

Pbk | 2007 | 3827419131 | #165160 | £50.50 approx. $105/€73 add to basket

Taxonomic Studies of the Genera Cyclotella (Kützing) Brébisson, Discostella Houk et Klee and Puncticulata Hakansson in the Family Sephanodiscaceae Glezer et Makarova (Bacillariophyta) in Japan

Hiroyuki Tanaka

204 pages | 70 plates | Gebrder Borntraeger

Pbk | 2007 | 3443570445 | #166258 | £62.00 approx. $129/€89 add to basket

Unravelling the Algae

The Past, Present, and Future of Algae Systematics

Edited by Juliet Brodie and Jane Lewis

Reviews the state-of-the-science and assesses the impact of molecular tools on the taxonomy of algal groups. It discusses the extent to which these tools extend ....

392 pages | Col plates | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2007 | 084937989X | #168118 | £68.99 approx. $143/€99 add to basket

World Seaweed Resources

An authoritative reference system

Edited by AT Critchley, M Ohno and DB Largo

Seaweed represents a major component of marine ecosystems. It is used as food, fertiliser and as a resource for chemical constituents. This interactive multimedia ....

- | ETI

CD | 2006 | 9075000804 | #160046 | £33.25 approx. $69/€48 add to basket