Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae
By: Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff
An essential guide for fisheries, public health officials and environmental water quality assessors.
Algal blooms have the potential to wipe out fish farms virtually overnight. Contamination of seafoods with algal toxins can poison human consumers of fish and shellfish. During the past two decades, globally there have been significant increases in economic loss and human health impact due to harmful algal blooms. + Full description
Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae offers fish and shellfish farmers information on how to effectively identify and monitor for the presence of algal species and take the appropriate species-specific countermeasures. Species descriptions are accompanied by a summary of the known distribution of the alga, its toxicology and, where available, suggestions for countermeasures. The book includes line drawings, light micrographs and electron micrographs to aid identification, as well as references and resources for further information. This guide will be valuable to fisheries and public health officials as well as all those involved in environmental water quality assessment.
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Paperback | March 2024 | $ 59.99ISBN: 9781486317998 | 192 pages | 215 x 148 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
B&W photographs, Illustrations
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ISBN: 9781486318018
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Features
- The most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Australian harmful marine microalgae, covering over 100 species.
- Introduces and describes algal species in an accessible and practical way for students, researchers and practitioners.
- Gives aquaculture managers a critical resource toward early warning of seafood toxins in shellfish and aquaculture fish kills.
- This guide, now widely available in print for the first time, arose from 30 years of lecture notes accompanying training courses on harmful marine microalgae targeting Australian shellfish and fish farmers.
Contents
PrefaceAbout the author
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Species descriptions
2. Dinoflagellates
3. Diatoms
4. Prymnesiophyta = haptophyta (golden brown flagellates with haptonema)
5. Chrysophyta, class Raphidophyceae (chloromonads)
6. Chrysophyta, class Dictyochophyceae
7. Other flagellates
8. Cyanobacteria (blue–green algae)
Glossary
Further resources
Picture credits
Taxonomic index
Subject index
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Authors
Gustaaf Hallegraeff is an authority on harmful marine microalgae and their impacts on the seafood industry. He is now Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, following positions as Head of the School of Plant Science, and as a principal research scientist at CSIRO. He was awarded the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research and, in 2014, the Yasumoto Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae. He has also contributed to a number of handbooks on harmful marine microalgae.
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