Seaweeds of the British Isles: Volume 3: Fucophyceae (Phaeophyceae), Part 1

Robert L. Fletcher

This volume covers the species att ributed to the class Fucophyceae. Each species description incorporates notes on ecology and distribution and many are supported by line illustrations. This is a reprint edition of 0-565-00992-3 published in 1987.

About the series

The synthesis of many years’ research carried out by members of the British Phycological Society in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, London, this series of books covers all the British and the majority of northern Atlantic seaweeds.

About the authors

Dr Robert Fletcher is a Reader in Marine Environmental Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Portsmouth. He works at the Institute of Marine Sciences, Portsea Island as an algal taxonomist and is also an authority on marine fouling organisms, alien introductions and marine pollution.

Readership level

postgraduate, field centre, marine biologist, taxonomist

Keywords

seaweed, phycology, algae, marine biology, taxonomy, identification, marine habitat, seashore