Plankton Ecology: Succession in Plankton Communities

Ulrich Sommer

Springer Berlin Heidelberg, May 20, 2012 - Science - 369 pages

All relevant ecological aspects of plankton, especially seasonal changes in the species composition, the role of competition for limiting resources in species replacements, the role of parasitism, predation and competition in seasonal succession are treated in detail considering phytoplankton, zooplankton and bacteroplankton. In addition to its use as a valid reference book for plankton ecology, this monograph may well be used as a model for other kinds of ecological communities.

About the author

Winfried Lampert is Director Emeritus at Max Planck Institute for Limnology, Ploen, Germany, and is a Honorary Professor at the University of Kiel. He received the Naumann-Thienemann medal of the International Society of Limnology in 1995. Before his appointment to the Max Planck Society he worked at the universities at Freiburg, Constance and Frankfurt were he developed his experimental, evolutionary approach to plankton ecology. Ulrich Sommer is Full Professor of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Kiel, Germany. His background is originally in limnology. He has become well known for his mechanistic, experimental approach to phytoplankton community ecology. He worked at the universities of Vienna and Constance and at the Max Planck Institute at Plon, Germany, before he moved to the universities of Oldenburg and Kiel to apply a similar approach in marine systems. Ulrich Sommer has written and edited several books on plankton.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Plankton Ecology: Succession in Plankton Communities; Brock Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience
• Editor: Ulrich Sommer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
• ISBN: 3642748910, 9783642748912
• Length: 369 pages
• Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Ecology; Science / Life Sciences / Microbiology; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General