The Diatoms
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2nd edition, 9/30/2010
EAN 9780521509961, ISBN10: 0521509963
Hardcover, 686 pages, 27.8 x 22.4 x 3.8 cm
Language: English
This much revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and detailed summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications in the environmental and earth sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of diatoms in analysing ecological problems related to climate change, acidification, eutrophication, and other pollution issues. The chapters are divided into sections for easy reference, with separate sections covering indicators in different aquatic environments. A final section explores diatom use in other fields of study such as forensics, oil and gas exploration, nanotechnology, and archaeology. Sixteen new chapters have been added since the first edition, including introductory chapters on diatom biology and the numerical approaches used by diatomists. The extensive glossary has also been expanded and now includes over 1,000 detailed entries, which will help non-specialists to use the book effectively.
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. Applications and uses of diatoms
prologue
2. The diatoms
a primer
3. Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data
Part II. Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Flowing Waters and Lakes
4. Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms
5. Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in rivers, fluvial lakes and impoundments
6. Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity
7. Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication
8. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes
9. Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes
10. Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes
11. Diatoms in ancient lakes
Part III. Diatoms as Indicators in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Lacustrine Environments
12. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions
13. Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic
14. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters
Part IV. Diatoms as Indicators in Marine and Estuarine Environments
15. Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems
16. Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments
17. Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms
18. Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes
19. Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes
20. Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions
21. Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change
22. Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events
23. Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean
Part V. Other Applications
24. Diatoms of aerial habitats
25. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands
26. Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators
27. Diatoms and archaeology
28. Diatoms in oil and gas exploration
29. Forensic science and diatoms
30. Toxic marine diatoms
31. Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport
32. Diatoms as nonnative species
33. Diatomite
34. Stable isotopes from diatom silica
35. Diatoms and nanotechnology
early history and imagined future as seen through patents
Part VI. Conclusions
36. Epilogue
a view to the future
Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations
Index.
From the First Edition:
"An inspirational volume that will be valuable in courses in environmental biology and geography, at the undergraduate and graduate level. It will also provide useful ammunition for embattled phycologists, unable to avoid the ever increasing irritating demands to show that their work has immediate 'relevance'. The epilogue should be
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
From the First Edition:
"This book can warmly be recommended to a wide variety of readers. Diatomologists as a handy survey, environmental monitors, freshwater biologists and phycologists as a source of immeasurable useful knowledge, biology university teachers as a source of facts and inspiration. The book is well made; editors, authors and publishers can share the credit."
Nordic Journal of Botany
From the First Edition:
"This book constitutes a well-organized and comprehensive review on the use of diatoms in environmental and earth sciences in recent decades, and is a well-referenced resource...The book is an essential resource for all students and investigators who have interest in diatoms and the environmental sciences, both for modern studies and for historical applications. It is well worth the price..."
Journal of Paleolimnology
From the First Edition:
"This book provides a very useful overview of all potential applications of diatoms to environmental problems."
Journal of Phycology
"With this book-all of whose chapters are of high quality-it can be fairly said that environmental diatom analysis has come of age."
Holocene
From the First Edition:
"This book is packed with information on the many uses of diatoms in the Earth and environmental sciences, and is an essential volume for Quarternary and environmental scientists."
The Quarterly Review of Biology
From the First Edition:
"an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in diatoms, particularly students, who will appreciate its thorough reviews and wealth of literature citations. Its synthesis of techniques, ideas, and viewpoints move diatom science strongly into the 21st century."
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography