Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems
Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent literature on the role of lipids in aquatic systems from many world experts. Essential fatty acids (EFAs), or omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids as they are known in the popular
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Michael T. Arts • Michael T. Brett Martin J. Kainz Editors
Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems
Editors Michael T. Arts Aquatic Ecosystems Management Research Division National Water Research Institute – Environment Canada P.O. Box 5050, 867 Lakeshore Road Burlington, ON, Canada L7R 4A6 [email protected]
Martin J. Kainz WasserKluster Lunz Biologische Station Dr. Carl Kupelwieser Promenade 5 3293 Lunz am See, Austria [email protected]
Michael T. Brett Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Washington Box 352700, 301 More Hall, Seattle WA 98195-2700, USA [email protected]
ISBN: 978-0-387-88607-7 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-89366-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89366-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2008942065 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. The artwork depicted in the small inset on the front cover is a collaboration between the three editors and the artist, Andrew Turnbull (www.turnbullsculpture.com), with subsequent modifications by graphic artist Lucas Neilson. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
The direction of science is often driven by methodological progress, and the topic of this book is no exception. I remember sitting with a visitor on the terrace of a hotel overlooking Lake Constance in the early 1970s. We were discussing the gravimetric method of measuring total lipids in zooplankton. A few years later, as a visitor in Clyde E. Goulden’s lab, I was greatly impressed by the ability of an instrument called an Iatroscan to discriminate and quantify specific lipid classes (e.g., triacylglycerols, polar lipids, wax esters). At that time, food web analysis was mainly concerned with bulk quantitative aspects. For example, lipids, because of their high energy content, were considered mainly as an important food source and storage product. Nearly a decade ago, when Michael Arts and Bruce Wainman edited the first volume entitled “Lipids in Freshwater Ecosystems” (Springer), the focus had already changed. Fatty acid analysis had become more mainstream, because new, less expensive, instruments had become available for ecological laboratories and because ecology, in general, was diversifying and integrating with other disciplines. Hence, the
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