Journal of Plankton Research Vol. 26 No. 5 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
BOOK REVIEW |
Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology: Measurement, Analysis, Simulation. Edited by Laurent Seuront and Peter G. Strutton. CRC Press, 2003 [marked 2004], xviii + 600 pp. ISBN 0-8493-1344-9 (hardback). $129.95/£87.00.
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The Preface starts, ‘Aquatic scientists have always been intrigued with concepts of scale’. I beg to disagree. When I did my BSc in 1968, the lesson by Kierstead and Slobodkin about scale was still not addressed (Kierstead and Slobodkin, 1953
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The book comprises 36 chapters in three sections: Measurement, Analysis and Simulation. Of these, 25 or so concern principally the pelagos, seven the benthos or littoral, plus four outside this classification. Despite their diversity, there is a common feeling running through most of the chapters, which succeeds in federating them into the handbook of the title. Space does not permit a comment even on every ‘pelagic’ chapter, so my apologies go to those unremarked.
Measurement section
Starting the Measurement section, Wolk et al. showed that variation in chlorophyll fluorescence is sometimes relatively large at centimetre scales, confirming work by Bjørnsen and Nielsen (Bjørnsen and Nielsen, 1991) and by Mouritsen and
Analysis section
Simulation section