"Aquatic Photosynthesis" is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly revised to bring it up to date, describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface chemistry of the Earth. The book focuses on recent biochemical and biophysical advances and the molecular biological techniques that have made them possible. In ten chapters that are self-contained but that build upon information presented earlier, the book starts with a reductionist, biophysical description of the photosynthetic reactions. It then moves through biochemical and molecular biological patterns in aquatic photoautotrophs, physiological and ecological principles, and global biogeochemical cycles. The book considers applications to ecology, and refers to historical developments. It can be used as a primary text in a lecture course, or as a supplemental text in a survey course such as biological oceanography, limnology, or biogeochemistry.
- ISBN10 0691115508
- ISBN13 9780691115504
- Publish Date 11 February 2007 (first published July 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 488
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8337.html