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Algae and Human Affairs provides a comprehensive survey of the major roles of algae in present and future human life. This detailed synthesis is divided into four sections. The first reviews the natural roles of algae as sources of oxygen, organic carbon compounds, and as bases of food-chains for higher trophic levels. The second group of chapters deals with the commercial and economic value of algae to industry, energy, waste treatment and agriculture (i.e. algae as an important source of food and food additives, such as the carageenan used in dairy products). The third section discusses the detrimental, sometimes disastrous, effects of algae in the form of red-tide organisms, weeds, producers of freshwater toxins, and marine biofouling. The final section considers applications and the potential of algae to industry, in general, and, in particular, to space exploration and genetic engineering.

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• Editors' preface
• Part I Algae and Their Role in Natural Ecosystems
• 1 The algae: an overview
• 2 Structure and role of algae in tropical reef communities
• 3 Algae and the environment: the Great Lakes case
• Part II Algae for Food and Food Supplements
• 4 Porphyra as food: cultivation and economics
• 5 Cultivated edible kelp
• 6 Food and food products from seaweeds
• 7 Spirulina: a model for microalgae as human food
• 8 Some public health aspects of microalgal products
• Part III Algae in Industry, Environmental Management, and Agriculture: 9. Commercial production and applications of algal hydrocolloids
• 10 Lipids and polyols from microalgae
• 11 The role of microalgae in liquid waste treatment and reclamation
• 12 Hydrogen production by algal water splitting
• 13 Products from fossil algae
• 14 Algae and agriculture
• Part IV Adverse Impacts of Algae
• 15 Marine dinoflagellate blooms: dynamics and impacts Karen
• 16 Hazards of freshwater blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)
• 17 Marine biofouling
• 18 Algae as weeds: economic impact, ecology and management alternatives
• Part V The Future of Algae in Human Affairs
• 19 Algae in space
• 20 The genetic improvement of algae; progress and prospects
• 21 A future of phycotechnology Arthur
• Indexes

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CHOICE Review

The editors of this volume have nicely blended historical facts with current and possible future uses of algae by human society. The titles of the five sections--"Algae and their Role in Natural Ecosystems," "Algae for Food and Food Supplements," "Algae in Industry, Environmental Management, and Agriculture," "Adverse Impacts of Algae," and "The Future of Algae in Human Affairs"--show that nuisances by algae as well as important commerical uses are covered. Each of the 21 chapters by specialists in the field gives a detailed coverage not remotely covered in other phycological works--these mostly include the scope of this volume as a chapter or two. Although frequently addressed in other books, such topics as the cultivation and uses of Porphyra and Laminaria and the dynamics of red tides are superbly documented and up-to-date. Other topics covered here are wastewater treatment, algae and public health concerns, and algae in agriculture. The final section "Algae in space", a futuristic look at a possible next century technology that could become most important for prolonged space travel. This and the other chapters of the closing section are fine contributions to the literature. An excellent addition for all academic libraries with curricula in the biological sciences. -C. W. Schneider, Trinity College (CT)