Winfried Lampert’s long-awaited monograph about Daphnia magna (490 pages) is now available at Amazon
Cladocerologists do not need to be convinced that Daphnia magna deserves its own opus magnum. This is how the book is being introduced to the other readers:
Why would somebody write a voluminous monograph on a single species of Cladocera? Eventually one might contact a student or an ecotoxicologist confronted with a question concerned with population biology, population genetics, aquatic ecology, aquatic physiology or ecotoxicology. All these topics of aquatic biology have been treated using Daphnia, a tiny little ‘water flea’ dwelling in freshwater ponds and puddles. However, the most-studied Daphnia species used is Daphnia magna, one of the largest (millimeter-sized) water fleas. Having worked with Daphnia for 25 years at the Max Planck Institute at Plön, Germany, Professor Winfried Lampert decided that it would be worth summarizing the total knowledge available on this species. It is hoped that the content of this monograph will help generate data for new science.