Colin Reynolds joined the staff at the Windermere Laboratory of the Freshwater Biological Association in 1970. He has published two books, edited a dozen others and has published over 220 scientific papers. He was the winner of the 1994 Limnetic Ecology Prize; he was awarded a coveted Naumann-Thienemann Medal of SIL and was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen as a Member of the British Empire. In 2002, he retired and is now both a CEH and FBA Honorary Fellow.
Ecology of Phytoplankton is an impressive compilation of information of phytoplankton ecology and covers everything from some basic taxonomy of the phytoplankton to detailed discussions of the multifaceted topic of phytoplankton morality and loss processes. Russell L. Chapman, Plant Science Bulletin