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The biology of lakes and ponds / Christer Brönmark, and Lars-Anders Hansson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brönmark, Christer.
- Series:
- Biology of Habitats
- Biology of habitats
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lake ecology.
- Limnology.
- Pond ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Biology of Lakes and Ponds", now in its second edition, is a valuable text for university tuition. Its lucid explanations and descriptions of adaptation, dominance, dispersal, and succession of organisms, as well as the effects of abiotic factors, predation, and competition, ensure its relevance and use to a broad audience of biologists and naturalists with an interest in freshwater ecology.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The abiotic frame and adaptations to cope with abiotic constraints
- Introduction
- Staying afloat
- Turbulence
- Lake formation
- Temperature
- Light
- Abiotic factors affected by the catchment area
- Water colour
- Carbon
- pH
- Nutrients
- Oxygen
- Habitat permanence
- Practical experiments and observations
- 3 The organisms: the actors within the abiotic frame
- Viruses
- Prokaryotic organisms
- Eukaryotic organisms
- Protozoa
- Primary producers
- Metazoa-animals with differentiated cells
- 4 Biotics: competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism, and symbiosis
- Competition
- Predation and herbivory
- Parasitism
- Symbiosis
- 5 Food web interactions in freshwater ecosystems
- The evolution of an ecosystem approach
- Cascading trophic interactions
- Alternative stable states
- Microbial components
- Interaction strength in freshwater food chains
- Succession
- Impact of organisms on the abiotic frame
- 6 Biodiversity and environmental threats
- Biodiversity in lakes and ponds
- Paleolimnology as a tool to understand history
- Eutrophication
- Acidification
- Contamination
- Global climate change
- Solar ultraviolet radiation
- Combined effects of environmental hazards
- Exotic species
- Global differentiation
- Actions taken against environmental threats
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- GLOSSARY
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- Z
- INDEX
- J
- Q
- U
- W
- X
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610869732
- 1-280-86973-9
- 0-19-154543-0
- 1-4237-5817-X
- OCLC:
- 868007931
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