Coastal Plankton: Photo Guide for European Seas. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Coastal Plankton: Photo Guide for European Seas

“Book a holiday to the seaside, take this book with you and enjoy the wonderful world of marine plankton! … I have not seen a better beginners guide to the subject … a book that you wished was published years before.” (Wim van Egmond, Microscopy-UK, review of the first edition) And here is the second edition. Its most evident new feature is the considerable increase in the number of photographs, from 660 to now 930. In particular, numerous Mediterranean species have been added, leading, among others, to the inclusion of entirely new plates on trematodes, sipunculids, pelagic gastropods, several crustacean taxa, enteropneusts, and holothurians.

Prof. Dr. Otto LARINK is a zoologist. He studied morphology and developmental history of insects (PhD 1968 in Kiel, habilitation 1975 in Braunschweig). Later he was the head of a working group on soil zoology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, till 2004. During annual courses at the Biological Station on the isle of Helgoland in the German Bight since 1963 and during various visits at European coasts he observed the diversity of plankton organisms and documented them with many micrographs presented here.

Prof. Dr. Wilfried WESTHEIDE is zoologist as well and focused in his research on systematics and morphology of invertebrates, especially annelids. After his PhD (1966) he was a scientific member of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland for a short time, got his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and was head of the department of Systematic Zoology at the University of Osnabrück from 1983 to 2003.