South Atlantic Zooplankton is a general reference volume and guide on the identification and geographic distribution of the zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean. This book, to be published by Backhuys, Leiden, prospectively in 1999, compiles detailed information for the specific identification of 30 zooplanktonic groups, and offers a review of species-specific geographic and vertical distribution patterns in the South Atlantic Ocean. This edition covers the abundant literature produced in the last decades, much of which is in the form of unpublished dissertations, internal reports, and articles in local journals of restricted distribution, extending the coverage of the 1981 Spanish volume to the eastern South Atlantic (0 to 60°S, coast to coast).

The South Atlantic Zooplankton is a joint effort coordinated by D. Boltovskoy with contributions by 43 biological oceanographers and marine biologists from 14 countries around the globe.

The contents of this ca. 2,000 pages volume includes one introductory chapter: "General biological features of the South Atlantic Ocean", followed by those devoted to the different zooplanktonic groups:

For each group the following information is included: comments on its general morphology, traits used in systematics, terminology. Specific methodological aspects (collection of samples, fixation and preservation, preparation for analysis, observation, etc.). Classification (species descriptions, identification keys and tables). Geographic distribution of the species in the South Atlantic. Vertical distribution patterns of the species in the South Atlantic.

The contributors to this volume are:

  • Bernardo Abiahy Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05422 970 São Paulo, Brasil (barroso@usp.br)
  • Viviana A. Alder Instituto Antártico Argentino and Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina (viviana@bg.fcen.uba.ar)
  • Martin Angel Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK (mva@soc.soton.ac.uk)
  • Renate Bernstein University of South Florida, Department of Marine Science, St. Petersburg Campus, 140 7th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA (renate@seas.marine.usf.edu)
  • Denis Binet Antennne Orstom - Centre IFREMER, B.P. 21105 - 44311, Nantes-Cedex, France
  • Demetrio Boltovskoy Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina (demetrio@bg.fcen.uba.ar)
  • Jean Bouillon Laboratoire de Zoologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, B-1050, Belgium (jbouillo@ulb.ac.be)
  • Janet Bradford-Grieve National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Box 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand (j.grieve@niwa.cri.nz)
  • Jean-Paul Casanova Université de Provence, Biologie Animales (Plancton), case 18, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, Cedex 3, France (bioplank@newsup.univ-mrs.fr)
  • Paul Cornelius Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK (pfsc@nhm.ac.uk)
  • José R. Dadon Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina (dadon@bg.fcen.uba.ar)
  • Cristina Daponte Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina (daponte@bg.fcen.uba.ar)
  • Graciela B. Esnal Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina (esnal@bg.fcen.uba.ar)
  • María Ana Fernández Alamo Laboratorio de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-371, México, D.F. 04510, México (mafa@hp.fciencias.unam.mx)
  • Adilson Fransozo Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Campus de Botucatu, CP 502, CEP 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil (fransozo@surfnet.com.br)
  • Mark Gibbons Zoology Department, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, Republic of South Africa (mark@botany.uwc.ac.za)
  • Ray Gibson School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK (r.gibson@livjm.ac.uk)
  • Christoph Hemleben Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen, D-7400 Tübingen, Germany (christoph.hemleben@uni-tuebingen.de)
  • Lawrence Hutchings Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Private Bag X2, Roggebaai 8012, Republic of South Africa (lhutchin@sp.sfri.ac.za)
  • Sylvia Kemmle-Muecke Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Klagenfurter Strasse, Universität Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • Stanley A. Kling 416 Shore View Lane, Leucadia, California 92024, USA (kling@odpwcr.ucsd.edu)
  • Lena Markhaseva Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia (mel@zisp.spb.su)
  • Yasunobu Matsuura Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Cidade Universitária, Butantá, 05508 São Paulo, Brazil (ymatsuur@usp.br)
  • Fernando L. Medina Mantelatto Departamento de Biologia - FFCLRP-USP, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, Riberão Preto (SP), Brazil (flmantel@spider.usp.br)
  • Hermes W. Mianzan Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Casilla de Correo 175, 7600 Mar del Plata, and CONICET, Argentina (hermia@mdp.edu.ar)
  • Masaaki Murano Institute of Environmental Ecology, METOCEAN Co. Ltd., Riemon 1334-5, Ooigawa-cho, Shida-gun, Shizuoka 421-02, Japan (murano@notes.metocean.co.jp)
  • María L. Negreiros-Fransozo Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Campus de Botucatu, CP 502, CEP 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil (fransozo@surfnet.com.br)
  • Kir Nesis P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 36 Nakhimov Avenue, 117218 Moscow, Russia (npar@fish.comcp.msk.su)
  • María Pilar Olivar Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, CSIC, Paseo Joan de Borbó s/n, Barcelona 08039, Spain (polivar@icm.csic.es)
  • Takashi Onbé 2-60-406 Saijo Nishi-Honmachi, Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan (Fax: 81-824-22-8208)
  • Wolfgang Petz Institut für Zoologie, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunner Strasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria (wolfgang.petz@sbg.ac.at)
  • Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada E0G 2X0 (arc@sta.dfo.ca)
  • Phil Pugh Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK (prp@soc.soton.ac.uk)
  • Gotthard Richter Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 6000 Frankfurt am Main 1, Germany (sbaszio@sng.uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Carlos E. F. Rocha Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05422 970 São Paulo, Brasil (cefrocha@usp.br)
  • Roger Seapy Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton, California 92634, USA (rseapy@fullerton.edu)
  • Vassily Spiridonov Zoology Museum of the University of Moscow, Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 6, Moscow 103009, Russia (ivanov@zoomus.bio.msu.su)
  • Geraint Tarling Scottish Marine Biological Association, P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll, Scotland PA34 4AD, UK (gant@wpo.nerc.ac.uk)
  • Erik Thuesen Lab. II, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505, USA (thuesene@elwha.evergreen.edu)
  • Siebrecht van der Spoel Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Postbus 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands (spoel@bio.uva.nl)
  • Georgy Vinogradov A.N. Severtzov Institute of the Problems of Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Lenin Ave. 33, Moscow 117071, Russia (egor@ecosys.sio.rssi.ru or egor@invert.sevin.msk.ru)
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