Dr. Darryl L. Felder, professor of biology and head of the Laboratory for Crustacean Research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is one of the editors of Gulf of Mexico Origins, Waters and Biota, which has just been released by Texas A&M University Press.
This reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of, for the first time, taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information.
Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, it includes 77 chapters, listing more than 15,000 species in 38 phyla or divisions, written by 138 authors from 71 institutions in 14 countries.
The first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origins, Waters, and Biot, (a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) offers a look focused at marine species ranging from microbes and diatoms to seaweed, sponges, snails, crabs, birds, worms, fish, and virtually all other life forms. The listings include species’ habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.
Felder is also associate scientist at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. |
