Fletcher Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78427-248-7
Verlag: Pelagic Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 500 Seiten

Reihe: Seaweeds of the British Isles

Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland provides the first complete, up-to-date, detailed illustrated guide and keys to the nearly 200 species of brown algae present around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. It is the culmination of over 30 years of field and laboratory studies by the author.

Following an exhaustive introduction that covers the biology and ecology of brown seaweeds, a checklist of species is set out, followed by clear and user-friendly keys to the genera. Particular attention is then paid to providing detailed illustrations, and the volume holds more than 300 compound plates of line drawings and photographs in its extensive taxonomic treatment. Comprehensive information is given on the geographical and seasonal distributions, synonymy, morphology, anatomy, cytology, reproduction, life histories, taxonomy, systematics and bibliographic material pertaining to each species.

Notably, this flora offers a much fuller consideration of many of the lesser known, more cryptic microscopic brown algae than previously available. Further, the book also contains the results of much original research undertaken by the author. This will surely remain a standard reference work on brown seaweeds for many years to come – an indispensable research tool and field guide for phycologists and students throughout the North Atlantic region and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Robert L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Phykologie, Algen, Flechten, Lichen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeresbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Cell structure

The brown algal thallus

Reproduction

Life histories

Community ecology

Floristics

Systematics

Checklist of Phaeophyceae for Britain and Ireland

Arrangement of the work

References for Introduction

Keys to genera

Taxonomic treatment

SUBCLASS DISCOSPORANGIOPHYCIDAE

Order Discosporangiales

Family Choristocarpaceae

SUBCLASS ISHIGEOPHYCIDAE

Order Ishigeales

  Family Petrodermatceae

SUBCLASS DICTYOTOPHYCIDAE

Order Dictyotales

   Family Dictyotaceae

Order Sphacelariales

   Family Cladostephaceae

   Family Lithodermataceae

   Family Sphacelariaceae

   Family Sphacelodermataceae

   Family Stypocaulaceae

SUBCLASS FUCOPHYCIDAE

Order Desmarestiales

   Family Arthrocladiaceae

   Family Desmarestiaceae

Order Ectocarpales

   Family Acinetosporaceae

   Family Chordariaceae

   Family Ectocarpaceae

   Family Petrospongiaceae

   Family Scytosiphonaceae

Order Fucales

   Family Fucaceae

   Family Himanthaliaceae

   Family Cystoseiraceae

Family Sargassaceae

Order Laminariales

   Family Alariaceae

   Family Chordaceae

   Family Laminariaceae

Order Ralfsiales

   Family Ralfsiaceae

Order Sporochnales

   Family Sporochnaceae

Order Tilopteridales

   Family Cutleriaceae

   Family Halosiphonaceae

   Family Phyllariaceae

   Family Tilopteridaceae

Incertae sedis at ordinal rank

Sorapion

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fletcher, Robert L.
Robert Fletcher is a Visiting Reader at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK, where he has worked since 1971. He has published widely on aspects of the ecology, life histories, molecular biology, taxonomy and applied aspects of marine algae, with particular respect to the brown algae. He is a member of both the British Society of Phycology and the International Society of Phycology. He received his PhD in Marine Botany from the University of London, UK in 1974.