Coccolithophores

Jeremy R. Young

ISBN 10: 3642060161 / ISBN 13: 9783642060168

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2010, 2010

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This introduction to one of the most common phytoplankton types provides broad coverage from molecular and cellular biology all the way to its impact on the global carbon cycle and climate. Individual chapters focus on coccolithophore biology, ecology, evolutionary phylogeny and impact on current and past global changes. The book addresses fundamental questions about the interaction between the biota and the environment at various temporal and spatial scales. 580 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coccolithophores
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642060161
• ISBN 13: 9783642060168
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 32D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 867 grams

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Synopsis

In the past few years rapid progress has been made regarding our understanding of one of the dominant phytoplankton groups of the world's oceans: the coccolithophores. Among other initiatives, the EU-funded TMR network CODENET (Coccolithophores Evolutionary Biodiversity and Ecology Network) has provided new results and insights. These and many other findings are reviewed and synthesized in a number of individual chapters which focus on coccolithophore biology (molecular to cellular), ecology (experimental and in the ocean), evolutionary phylogeny and its impact on current and past global changes. Coccolithophores are emerging as a prime model for interdisciplinary global change research due to their great abundance, wide distribution and exemplary geological record. The results presented in this book address the fundamental question of the interaction between the biota and the environment at various temporal and spatial scales.

Review

Aus den Rezensionen:

"Als eine Hauptkomponente des rezenten ozeanischen Planktons kommt den Coccolithophoren eine zunehmend große wissenschaftliche Bedeutung zu. ... Diesen umfangreichen interdisziplinären Themenkomplexen wird das Buch ... voll gerecht. ... Die Vorteile dieses ‘state of the art-Kompendiums‘ würdigte der Rez. bereits eingangs. Das mit seinen Beiträgen stark interdisziplinär angelegte Werk wirkt deutlich stimulierend auf biologisch wie auch mikropaläontologisch und (paläo)ozeanologisch orientierte Forschende. ... für jeden interdisziplinär arbeitenden (Paläo )-Planktologen ist es ein Muss."

(in: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil II, 2006, Issue 5-6, S. 898 ff.)