Plankton
A Guide to Their Ecology and Monitoring for Water Quality
Iain Suthers, David Rissik, Anthony Richardson
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Plankton
A Guide to Their Ecology and Monitoring for Water Quality
Iain Suthers, David Rissik, Anthony Richardson
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The importance of plankton
- 2 Plankton processes and the environment
- 3 Use of plankton for management
- 4 Sampling methods for plankton
- 5 Freshwater phytoplankton: diversity and biology
- 6 Coastal and marine phytoplankton: diversity and ecology
- 7 Freshwater zooplankton: diversity and biology
- 8 Coastal and marine zooplankton: identification, biology and ecology
- 9 Educating with plankton
- Epilogue
- Glossary of general terms
- Index