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Beginning systematically with the fundamentals, the fully-updated third edition of this popular graduate textbook provides an understanding of all the essential elements of marine optics. It explains the key role of light as a major factor in determining the operation and biological composition of aquatic ecosystems, and its scope ranges from the physics of light transmission within water, through the biochemistry and physiology of aquatic photosynthesis, to the ecological relationships that depend on the underwater light climate. This book also provides a valuable introduction to the remote sensing of the ocean from space, which is now recognized to be of great environmental significance due to its direct relevance to global warming. An important resource for graduate courses on marine optics, aquatic photosynthesis, or ocean remote sensing; and for aquatic scientists, both oceanographers and limnologists.

Photosynthesis. --- Plants --- Aquatic plants --- Underwater light. --- Submarine light --- Underwater illumination --- Light --- Aquatic flora --- Aquatic vegetation --- Hydrophytes --- Water plants --- Waterplants --- Aquatic organisms --- Water gardens --- Plants, Effect of underwater light on --- Underwater light --- Photobiology --- Gases from plants --- Effect of underwater light on. --- Ecophysiology. --- Effect of light on --- Physiological effect --- Photorespiration

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Penetration of light into aquatic ecosystems is greatly affected by the absorption and scattering processes that take place within the water. Thus within any water body, the intensity and colour of the light field changes greatly with depth and this has a marked influence on both the total productivity of, and the kinds of plant that predominate in, the ecosystem. This study presents an integrated and coherent treatment of the key role of light in aquatic ecosystems. It ranges from the physics of light transmission within water, through the biochemistry and physiology of aquatic photosynthesis, to the ecological relationships which depend on the underwater light climate.

Photosynthesis. --- Plants --- Aquatic plants --- Underwater light. --- Effect of underwater light on. --- Ecophysiology.