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Handbook of Cyanobacterial
Monitoring and Cyanotoxin Analysis
J. Meriluoto, L. Spoof, G.A. Codd (eds.), 2017
John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex, UK
ISBN: 978-1-119-06868-6
Pages: 576; € 168,00

Cyanobacteria are impacting widely on the daily ac-
tivities of the general public. They are increasingly rec-
ognized as agents having possible adverse effects on
water resources, on health of human and/or animals and
therefore should be monitored and managed. To fill exist-
ing gaps this valuable handbook which is edited by three
highly respected experts in the areas microbiology, algae
biochemistry, metabolomics, and environmental science
provide reviews, practical methods and standard operating
procedures. 

Scientists from both university and industry contributed
a series of chapters summarizing and introducing the reader
to Cyanobacteria (Section I and II), reviewing sampling,

monitoring including risk management (Section III), and
toxins plus other bioactive compounds in Cyanobacteria
(Section IV). These sections are followed by a comprehen-
sive survey of state-of-the-art analytical methods to char-
acterize different metabolites in Cyanobacteria (Section V)
and methodological considerations (Section VI). Section
VII gives several standard operating procedures around var-
ious aspects of Cyanobacteria analysis.

The style of this book is not only informative, but also
a joy to read. It is well produced and illustrations are given
in a very adequate way including a bibliography following
each chapter. Therefore, the book should be part of any
library of Cyanobacteria microbiologist and cyanotoxin
chemist. Furthermore, the book provides very interesting
material to be purchased by those with a much broader in-
terest in algae chemistry and ecology.

Stefan Martens
Food Quality and Nutrition Department,

Research and Innovation Centre
Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige,

Italy

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2017; 8(2): 242 BOOK REVIEW
DOI: 10.4081/aiol.2017.7221
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

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