Phytoplankton Pigments
4 November 2011
Pigments act as tracers to illustrate the fate of
phytoplankton in the world's oceans and are often associated with
important biogeochemical cycles related to carbon dynamics in the
oceans. They are increasingly used in in situ and
remote-sensing applications, detecting algal biomass and major taxa
through changes in water colour.
Dr Carole Llewellyn from PML, working with colleagues from the
Université du Québec à Rimouski, Bodø University College (Norway)
and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, have
published a sequel to the 1997 volume Phytoplankton Pigments in
Oceanography, entitled
Phytoplankton Pigments: Characterization, Chemotaxonomy and
Applications in Oceanography.
This book includes recent discoveries on several new algal
classes, particularly for the picoplankton, and new pigments. It
also includes many advances in methodologies, including liquid
chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and developments on the
mathematical methods used to exploit pigment information and
extract the composition of phytoplankton communities.
Phytoplankton Pigments is invaluable primarily as a reference
for students, researchers and professionals in aquatic science,
biogeochemistry and remote sensing.