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Living waters : ecology of animals in swamps, rivers, lakes and dams / Nick Romanowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romanowski, Nick, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biodiversity conservation.
- Wetland conservation--Australia.
- Wetland conservation.
- Wetland ecology--Australia.
- Wetland ecology.
- Wetlands--Australia.
- Wetlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than a natural history, this book explains the underlying forces that drive ecological change and movement in Australian wetlands.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Living waters
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The diversity of wetland animals
- 1 Invertebrates: the crustaceans
- Copepods
- Other smaller crustaceans
- Crayfishes, shrimps and crabs
- 2 Invertebrates: the insects
- The insect body plan
- Wetland insects: the major groups
- 3 Other invertebrate players
- Miniscule worlds
- Molluscs
- Worms, leeches, sponges and jellyfish
- Spiders and mites
- 4 Fishes
- Moving between the sea and fresh waters
- The diversity of native freshwater fishes
- 5 Frogs, reptiles and mammals
- The life cycles of frogs
- Wetland frogs
- Freshwater turtles
- Lizards, snakes and crocodiles
- Mammals
- 6 Waterbirds
- The migratory urge
- Eggs, nests and later problems
- The diversity of wetland birds
- Inland shorebirds and seabirds
- Part 2 Living with change
- 7 Making the most of change
- Small worlds
- Crabs and crayfishes
- Frogs
- Fishes
- Birds
- 8 Moving on
- Fishes and the upstream urge
- Overland or by air
- Insects
- Waterbirds - moulting and migration
- 9 Rebirth of a lake
- Drought and the new millennium
- Returning waters
- The feathered hordes
- 10 Predator and prey
- What it takes to be a predator
- Hidden predators - arthropods
- Fishes as predators and prey
- Waterbirds as predators
- Crocodiles
- Part 3 Ecology: fitting into your environment
- 11 High and low places
- Water flowing underground
- Where the salt goes
- 12 Streams, brooks and fast rivers
- On higher ground
- Spiny crayfishes
- Fishes and fast streams
- Frogs and reptiles
- 13 Slow rivers in an ancient land
- Fishes of the inland rivers
- Turtles and invertebrates … but few frogs
- Waterbirds: drifters and stayers
- 14 Floodplains, billabongs and backwaters
- Insects and crustaceans
- Fishes, frogs and reptiles
- Waterbirds.
- 15 Marshes and swamps
- Swamp plants: diversity and interactions
- Invertebrate lifestyles
- Frogs, tadpoles and waterbirds
- 16 Freshwater lakes, lagoons and other dark waters
- Fishes and frogs
- Waterbirds and platypus: guides to hidden worlds
- 17 Estuaries, mangroves and saltmarshes
- Shifting lives in estuaries
- Fishes of estuaries and streams
- Reptiles and fishes in the north
- Other coastal wetlands
- 18 New opportunities: dams and other created wetlands
- Attracting waterbirds
- Fishes and frogs: finding a balance
- Hidden worlds
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Invertebrates
- Useful websites
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Plants
- Guide to common and scientific names used in this book
- Index.
- 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 27, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780643107588
- 0643107584
- 9780643107571
- 0643107576
- OCLC:
- 839545445
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