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Introduction to freshwater algae / Robert G. Sheath and John D. Wehr -- Habitats of freshwater algae / John D. Wehr and Robert G. Sheath -- Coccoid Cyanobacteria / Jiri Komarek and Jeffrey R Johansen -- Filamentous Cyanobacteria / Jiri Komarek and Jeffrey R Johansen -- Red algae / Robert G. Sheath and Morgan L. Vis -- Flagellated green algae / Takashi Nakada and Hisayoshi Nozaki -- Nonmotile coccoid and colonial green algae / L. Elliot Shubert and Georg Gartner -- Filamentous (Nonconjugating) and plantlike green algae / David M. John and Fabio Rindi -- Conjugating green algae including desmids / John D. Hall and Richard M. McCourt -- Photosynthetic euglenoids / Richard E. Triemer and Bozena Zakrys -- Xanthophyte, Eustigmatophyte, and Raphidophyte algae / Donald W. Ott and Carla K. Oldham-Ott, Nataliya Rybalka and Thomas Friedl -- Chrysophyceae and Phaeothamniophyceae / Kenneth H. Nicholls and Daniel E. Wujek -- Haptophyte algae / Kenneth H. Nicholls -- Synurophyte algae / Peter A. Siver -- Centric and Araphid diatoms / J. Patrick Kociolek, Edward C. Theriot, David M. Williams, Eugene F. Stoermer, Matthew L. Julius, and John C. Kingston -- Bacillariophyceae: the raphid diatoms / J. Patrick Kociolek, S.A. Spaulding, and R.L. Lowe -- Dinoflagellates / Susan Carty and Matthew W. Parrow -- Cryptomonads / Brec L. Clay -- Brown algae / John D. Wehr -- Harmful Algal Blooms / Sue B. Watson, Brian A. Whitton, Scott N. Higgins, Hans W. Paerl, Bryan W. Brooks, and John D. Wehr -- Use of Algae in Ecological Assessments / R. Jan Stevenson and John P. Smol -- Glossary. Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification, Second Edition is an authoritative and practical treatise on the classification, biodiversity, and ecology of all known genera of freshwater algae from North America. The book provides essential taxonomic and ecological information about one of the most diverse and ubiquitous groups of organisms on earth. This single volume brings together experts on all the groups of algae that occur in fresh waters (also soils, snow, and extreme inland environments). In the decade since the first edition, there has been an explosion of new information on the classification, ecology, and biogeography of many groups of algae, with the use of molecular techniques and renewed interest in biological diversity. Accordingly, this new edition covers updated classification information of most algal groups and the reassignment of many genera and species, as well as new research on harmful algal blooms. |
