The field of experimental phycology continues to grow,
feeding on advances in other fields and sometimes, as
in the past, contributing to them. The wealth of new
literature alone would have warranted a revision of
our original book, The Physiological Ecology of Seaweeds.
However, the reasons for this revision - and its
changes - go even deeper. In fact, the original book has
been so thoroughly reworked and rewritten that we have
given it a new title.
Seaweed Ecology and Physiology, like its predecessor,
is intended primarily as a textbook. The rapid
growth of knowledge in this field is at once exciting and
daunting. Even more than in the first book, our method
has been to select papers that help put together a coherent
(if reticulate!) story. This book provides an entry to
the literature, not a systematic literature review