This book provides an introduction to the fascinating biology and ecology of lakes and ponds. Recently, there has been increasing interest in applying modern and evolutionary theory to the understanding of freshwater ecosystems, resulting in many new studies of the ways in which freshwater organisms adapt to abiotic constraints, and how direct and ...
"Reflections on a Summer Sea" is a wonderful evocation of a magical place caught in time - a funny and touching true story of a group of talented ecologists who, as a hobby, spent forty summers at their privately owned field laboratory in a beautiful corner of south-west Ireland. The sea laps on every page, for events take place beside and beneath ...
Crinkleroot searches for his friend, a small orange snake, through a soggy shoreland woods to the lake, under lily pads, and on a grassy knoll full of frogs, examining the animals and plants along the way.
The fact is that the Great lakes as a whole-not just Erie, but including it-are in far worse condition now than they were in the 1960's. The damage to them has reached crisis proportions; it is compounding annually; it may be irreversible; yet still the politicians congratulate themselves for building their little sewage treatment plants and ...
This concise, readable introduction to limnology (the science of investigating the structure and function of inland waters), places the subject in the context of modern ecology. Unlike most ecological textbooks, which use examples taken almost exclusively from terrestrial systems, this book integrates the fields of limnology and ecology by ...
This site-synthesis volume presents 20 years of work at the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Research Site. It provides the definitive information base for the ecology of temperate lakes, and a general assessment of the role of lakes within their landscapes. The Wisconsin temperate lakes LTER site has had a major role in the growth of our modern ...
Darwin's "Dreampond" tells the story of the "furu" and the battlefield leading to extinction. This text blends discussion of the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution and speciation with a history of Lake Victoria's ecosystem. The science is presented in the context of the author's first-person narrative about his own adventures as a field ...
"Ecology of Shallow Lakes" brings together current understanding of the mechanisms that drive the diametrically opposite states of water clarity, shown by the cover paintings, found in many shallow lakes and ponds. It gives an outline of the knowledge gained from field observations, experimental work, and restoration studies, linked by a solid ...
The African lakes are an extremely important ecosystem and the subject of much study relating to species introductions and loss of biodiversity. This book provides a thorough review of the whole subject and will be of great interest to fish biologists, fisheries workers, ecologists, environmental scientists and conservationists.
Nestled high in the mountains or deep within a forest, lakes are home to hundreds of plants and animals. Follow a beaver family as it interacts with various plants and animals along the shores of a lake and deep underwater. Discover how the smallest plant or bug affects the lives of every creature in this spectacular water biome.
Clean air and a pollution-free atmosphere are vital ingredients in the recipe for survival, but at the nucleus of life is water and life is dependent upon adequate supplies of pure, uncontaminated H2O. This does not only apply to human life and the government's recently passed legislation requiring UK drinking water to measure up to EEC purity ...
The rapid growth of the discipline of aquatic ecology has been driven both by scientific interest in the complexities of aquatic ecosystems and by their enormous environmental importance and sensitivity. "The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes" in Lakes focuses on the remarkably diverse roles played by underwater plants. The book is divided ...
This volume contains original research papers presented during the Second International Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology, Palaeoclimatology, and Biodiversity of the African Great Lakes, organized by the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL). The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the large lakes of the African Rift ...
Every notable aspect of "Toxic Contamination in Large Lakes" is examined by known experts from every continent. Authors represent the U.S. and Canada, Argentina, Sweden, USSR, Israel, Great Britain, Japan, China, The Netherlands, Germany, Kenya and Austria. Authors represent the entire spectrum - academia, government and industry. The first ...
Learn how living things interact in the Early Bird Food Webs series. In Lake and Pond Food Webs, readers find out how the channel catfish, the yellow pond lily, the pond snail, and the common snapping turtle each play their own unique role in the lake and pond biome.
Near Water is the final volume in Hugh Hood?s spectacular New Age series, an epic saga that is already treasured and revered as a meticulous chronicle of late 20th- and early 21st-century Canada. Son of a Nobel laureate, father of a space voyager, friend of a movie star, estranged husband of a painter, and semi-famous because of it all, Matthew ...
This book was the first to give a detailed description of the lakes of the Warm Belt of the earth. The book is composed of three parts. The first part gives the general geological, meteorological and hydrological features of the tropical and subtropical areas and permits the location of the warm lakes in the world hydrology. The second part ...
The structure and functioning of eutrophicated aquatic ecosystems has received considerable attention from limnologists as well as water managers in recent years. Stress has often been on pelagic food webs of deeper lakes whilst littoral systems or shallower lakes have been less thoroughly investigated. Since Dutch aquatic systems are shallow, as ...
"Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment" brings together the work of a renowned international group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic coldwater species of northern ...
Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes and colours, the cichlids (small perch-like fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii's Honeycreepers, have been geographically isolated long enough to undergo unusually broad speciation. These small fish form a species flock - closely related species that have ...
The present book summarises investigations on Lake Verevi (surface 12.6 ha, mean depth 3.6 m), located in the Estonian town of Elva, initiated since 1929. The seventeen articles in this book deal with a wide range of questions, starting with a holistic overview of the ecological status, over assessments of long-term changes in biotic and abiotic ...
Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes. "The Lakes Handbook" provides an up-to ...
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