Aquatic Photosynthesis

by Paul G. Falkowski, John A. Raven

Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly revised to bring it up to date, describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface chemistry of the Earth. The book focuses on recent biochemical and biophysical advances and the molecular biological techniques that have made them possible.

In ten chapters that are self-contained but that build upon information presented earlier, the book starts with a reductionist, biophysical description of the photosynthetic reactions. It then moves through biochemical and molecular biological patterns in aquatic photoautotrophs, physiological and ecological principles, and global biogeochemical cycles. The book considers applications to ecology, and refers to historical developments. It can be used as a primary text in a lecture course, or as a supplemental text in a survey course such as biological oceanography, limnology, or biogeochemistry.

488 pages, Paperback

Published February 11, 2007

Reviews

[Elise]

I mean it is everything I could ever need to know about aquatic photosynthesis but it was a very dry read and much more mechanistic and biochemically focused than I feel like I needed. Also I don't know how many editions there are, but the one I read had a ridiculous number of typos.