Freshwater Algae of North America

Dr. John Patrick Kociolek is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with University of Colorado's Museum of Natural History. He obtained his MSc from Bowling Green State University and his PhD from University of Michigan Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics, evolution, biogeography, and ecology of diatoms. He brings more than 35 years of experience to the study of freshwater diatoms spanning the United States, South America, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and India. Dr. James H. Thorp is a professor and senior scientist at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS, United States). Prior to 2001, he was a distinguished professor and dean at Clarkson University, department chair and professor at the University of Louisville, associate professor and director of the Calder Ecology Center at Fordham University, and research ecologist at Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He received his Baccalaureate from the University of Kansas and Masters and PhD degrees from North Carolina State. Prof. Thorp has been on the editorial board of three freshwater journals and is a former president of the International Society for River Science. His research interests run the gamut from organismal biology to community, ecosystem, and macrosystem ecology. While his research emphasizes aquatic invertebrates, he also studies fish ecology, especially food webs related. He has published more than 150 research articles and 10 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.

Introduction to Freshwater Algae.
Freshwater Habits of Algae.
Coccoid and Colonial Cyanobacteria.
Filamentous Cyanobacteria.
Red Algae.
Flagellated Green Algae.
Non-Motile Coccoid and Colonial Green Algae.
Filamentous and Plant-Like Green Algae.
Conjugating Green Algal Filaments and Desmids.
Photosynthetic Euglenoids.
Eustigmatophyte, Raphidophyte, and Tribophyte Algae.
Non-Scaled Golden Algae.
Haptophyte Algae.
Synurophyte Algae.
Centric Diatoms.
Araphid and Monoraphid Diatoms.
Symmetrical Naviculoid Diatoms.
Eunotioid and Aysmmetrical Naviculoid Diatoms.
Keeled Raphid Diatoms.
Dinoflagellates.
Cryptophyte Algae.
Brown Algae.
Use of Algae in Environmental Assessments.
Control of Nuisance Algae.