Description
Book Synopsis
This fourth volume of the Handbook of Phycological Methods, with its field-oriented perspective, is a comprehensive treatment of recently developed methodologies in the rapidly advancing field of marine benthic algal ecology.
Table of Contents
Editors' preface; Introduction; Part I. Environmental Sampling and Monitoring (Major Parameters): 1. Water motion Mark W. Denny; 2. Light J. Ramus; 3. Nutrients Patricia A. Wheeler; Part II. Assessments of Populations and Communities: 4. Collection, handling, preservation, and logistics Roy T. Tsuda and Isabella A. Abbott; 5. Electrophoresis Donald P. Cheney; 6. Natural products chemistry: uses in ecology and systematics James N. Norris and William H. Fenical; 7. Destructive (harvest) sampling Robert E. De Wreede; 8. Nondestructive sampling Mark M. Littler and Diane S. Littler; 9. Remote sensing and mapping T. Belsher, L. Loubersac and G. Belbeoch; 10. Subtidal techniques Michael S. Foster, Thomas A. Dean and Larry E. Deysher; 11. Equipment for conducting research in deep waters Sylvia A. Earle; 12. Demography A. R. O. Chapman; 13. Succession Michael S. Foster and Wayne P. Sousa; 14. Biomechanics M. A. R. Koehl and Stephen A. Wainwright; 15. Biographical analyses Louis D. Druehl and Robert G. Foottit; Part III. Ecological Energetics: 16. Respirometry and manometry Clinton J. Dawes; 17. Electrodes and chemicals Mark M. Littler and Keith E. Arnold; 18. The carbon-14 method for measuring primary productivity Keith E. Arnold and Mark M. Littler; 19. Measurement of photosynthesis by infrared gas analysis John A. Browse; 20. carbon allocation Richard G. Buggeln; 21. Open-flow systems Donald W. Kinsey; 22. Growth patterns and rates Boudewijn H. Brinkhuis; 23. Calorimetry Thomas H. Carefoot; 24. Nutrient uptake Marilyn M. Harlin and Patricia A. Wheeler; Part IV. Biological Interactions: 25. Competition among macroalgae E. J. Denley and P. K. Dayton; 26. Herbivory Robert L. Vadas; 27. Pathology John H. Andrews and Lynda J. Goff; Part V. Appendix: List of suppliers; Part VI. Indexes: Author; Taxonomic.
