Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems

by Robert G. Wetzel

Overview

Limnology is the study of the structural and functional interrelationships of organisms of inland waters as they are affected by their dynamic physical, chemical, and biotic environments. Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, Third Edition, is a new edition of this established classic text. The coverage remains rigorous and uncompromising and has been thoroughly reviewed and updated with evolving recent research results and theoretical understanding. In addition, the author has expanded coverage of lakes to reservoir and river ecosystems in comparative functional analyses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080574394
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/10/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1006
File size:	39 MB
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Table of Contents

Preface
1 Prologue
2 Water as a Substance
3 Rivers and Lakes - Their Distribution, Origins, and Forms
4 Water Economy
5 Light in Inland Waters
6 Fate of Heat
7 Water Movements
8 Structure and Productivity of Aquatic Ecosystems
9 Oxygen
10 Salinity of Inland Waters
11 The Inorganic Carbon Complex
12 The Nitrogen Cycle
13 The Phosphorus Cycle
14 Iron, Sulfer, and Silica Cycles
15 Planktonic Communities: Algae and Cyanobacteria
16 Plantonic Communities: Zooplankton and their Interactions with Fish
17 Bacterioplankton
18 Land-Water Interfaces: Larger Plants
19 Land-Water Interfaces: Attached Microorganisms, Littoral Algae, and Zooplankton
20 Shallow Lakes and Ponds
21 Sediments and Microflora
22 Benthic Animals and Fish Communities
23 Detrirus: Organic Carbon Cycling and Ecosystem Metabolism
24 Past Productivity: Paleolimnology
25 The Ontogeny of Inland Aquatic Ecosystmes
26 Inland waters: Understanding is Essential for the Future
References
Appendix
Index

Editorial Reviews

This newest edition is marked not only by substantial reworking, updating, and addition but also by the maturation of the author's understanding of freshwater ecosystems, and understanding that has been amassed from years of study and analysis of his own and others' research. ...the author's ability to put the tremendous array of subjects into context is nothing short of remarkable. ...this book is a timely and masterful revision, and it should be on the shelf and in the classroom of every practicing freshwater algal ecologist and limnologist.

Carole E. Lembi

"This newest edition is marked not only by substantial reworking, updating, and addition but also by the maturation of the author's understanding of freshwater ecosystems, and understanding that has been amassed from years of study and analysis of his own and others' research. ...the author's ability to put the tremendous array of subjects into context is nothing short of remarkable. ...this book is a timely and masterful revision, and it should be on the shelf and in the classroom of every practicing freshwater algal ecologist and limnologist." —Carole E. Lembi, Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, in JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY (2001)

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