Publisher's Synopsis
This work attempts to provide a guide to the identification of common freshwater diatoms from living material. It covers taxa found from oligotrophic upland streams and lakes to eutrophic lowland waters, and some slightly brackish habitats.;It is intended to be of use to aquatic ecologists, expert and beginner, only assuming access to a calibrated light microscope equipped with good quality objectives.;It should be of interest to postgraduate researchers in botany, freshwater ecology, taxonomy and systematics.
