The Lives of Seaweeds

”[An] excellent book… . If you have been indifferent to seaweeds and other algae before reading this book, I guarantee you that you will henceforth see them in a totally different light. You will learn, you will appreciate, you will marvel, and you will yearn to know more.”—David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds“Dip into this book and the chances are that you’ll start noticing and appreciating underwater plant life in an entirely new way.”—Steve Weinman, Divernet“A highly informative, profusely illustrated book.”—Anthony Payne, Glasgow Naturalist Society“A celebration of these underappreciated organisms.”—Gabor Lovei, Conservation Biology“Visually, The Lives of Seaweeds is simply stunning… . The content is also spectacular.”—Gareth Dowle, Marine Biological Association“A very well produced and well structured overview of what algae, especially seaweeds, are, how they live, what they are like and how important they are.”—Martin Wilkinson, Ocean Challenge

Julie A. Phillips is an environmental consultant in aquatic ecosystem health, algal blooms, and seaweed communities. She has investigated a diverse range of algal projects on reproduction, life histories, ultrastructure of motile cells, chemical composition of pheromones, taxonomy, biogeography, invasive species, ecology, biodiversity and conservation. Prior to consultancy, she was a research fellow at Monash University and the University of Queensland.