1st Edition

Plankton Guide to Their Ecology and Monitoring for Water Quality

248 Pages
by CRC Press

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... Read more

1. The importance of plankton. 2. Plankton processes and the environment. 3. Plankton-related environmental and water quality issues. 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 diversity and biology. 9. Plankton in the classroom.

Biography

 

Iain M. Suthers is a marine scientist at the University of New South Wales and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, specialising in the ecology of plankton and larval fish. Over the past few decades he has led or participated in many research voyages focused on the East Australian Current.

David Rissik works as a consultant for BMT and has an adjunct position with the Australian Rivers Institute and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University. He has worked in the areas of coastal zone management, monitoring and reporting on water quality and ecosystem health of estuarine and coastal systems, social-ecological systems, and climate change risk and climate adaptation.

Anthony J. Richardson is a mathematical ecologist at the University of Queensland and CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. Anthony was captivated with plankton during his PhD and now runs an Australia-wide plankton monitoring survey. His research modelling marine ecosystems and analysing plankton datasets brings his passions for biology and mathematics together.