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1. Morphology, life histories and morphogenesis | |
1.1 Introduction: the plants and their environments | |
1.2 Seaweed morphology and anatomy | |
1.3 Seaweed cells | |
1.4 Seaweed genetics and molecular biology | |
1.5 Seaweed life histories | |
1.6 Settlement and germination | |
1.7 Thallus morphogenesis | |
1.8 Synopsis | |
2. Seaweed communities | |
2.1 Seaweed communities T. A. Norton et al. | |
2.2 Intertidal zonation patterns | |
2.3 Submerged zonation patterns | |
2.4 Some other seaweed habitats and communities P. H. Nienhuis et al. | |
2.5 Community analysis | |
2.6 Synopsis | |
3. Biotic interactions | |
3.1 Competition | |
3.2 Grazing | |
3.3 Symbiosis | |
3.4 Synopsis | |
4. Light and photosynthesis | |
4.1 An overview of photosynthesis | |
4.2 Irradiance | |
4.3 Light harvesting | |
4.4 Carbon fixation: the 'dark reactions' of photosynthesis | |
4.5 Seaweed polysaccharides | |
4.6 Carbon translocation | |
4.7 Photosynthetic rates and primary productivity | |
4.8 Synopsis | |
5. Nutrients | |
5.1 Nutrien requirements | |
5.2 Nutrient availability in seawater | |
5.3 Pathways and barriers to ion entry | |
5.4 Nutrient uptake kinetics | |
5.5 Uptake, assimilation and metabolic role of essential nutrients | |
5.6 Long distance transport translocation | |
5.7 Growth kinetics | |
5.8 Effects of nutrient supply | |
5.9 Synopsis | |
6. Temperature and Salinity | |
6.1 Natural ranges of temperature and salinity | |
6.2 Temperature effects | |
6.3 Biochemical and physiological effects of salinity | |
6.4 Dessication | |
6.5 Salinity-temperature interactions and estuarine distribution | |
6.6 Synopsis | |
7. Water motion | |
7.1 Water flow over surfaces | |
7.2 Wave action | |
7.3 Synopsis | |
8. Pollution | |
8.1 Introduction | |
8.2 Thermal pollution | |
8.3 Heavy metals | |
8.4 Oil | |
8.5 Synthetic organic chemicals | |
8.6 Complex wastes and eutrophication | |
8.7 Synopsis | |
9. Seaweed mariculture | |
9.1 Introduction | |
9.2 Porphyra mariculture | |
9.3 Lamineria mariculture | |
9.4 Undaria mariculture | |
9.5 Eucheuma and Kappaphycus mariculture | |
9.6 Other seaweeds | |
9.7 Domestication of seaweeds - application of ecology and physiology | |
9.8 Seaweed biotechnology | |
9.9 Synopsis | |
Appendix: Taxonomic classification of algae mentioned in the text P. C. Silva and R. L. Moe | |
Index. |
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