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Freshwater ecology : concepts and environmental applications of limnology /
Of community ecology and ecosystem relationships found in continental waters. Giving students a solid foundation for both courses and future fieldwork, and updated to include key issues, including how to balance ecological and human health needs, GMOs, molecular tools, fracking, and a host of other...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press,
[2020]
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
| Colección: | Aquatic ecology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Why study continental aquatic systems?
- Human use of water: pressures on a key resource
- What is the value of water?
- Advanced: methods for assigning values to ecosystem services
- The anthropocene: climate change and water resources
- Politics, citizens, science, and water
- 2. Properties of water
- Chemical and physical properties
- Advanced: the nature of water
- Relationships among water viscosity, inertia, and physical parameters
- Movement of water
- Advanced: equations describing properties of moving water
- Forces that move water
- 3. Movement of light, heat, and chemicals in water
- Diffusion of chemicals in water
- Movement of gases between atmosphere and water
- Light in water
- Heat balance in water
- 4. The hydrologic cycle and physiography of groundwater habitats
- Habitats and the hydrologic cycle
- Advanced: prediction of amount and variability of runoff with global climate change
- Movement of water through soil and aquifers
- Groundwater habitats
- Interaction of groundwaters with surface waters
- 5. Hydrology and physiography of wetland habitats
- Definition of wetlands
- Wetland conservation and mitigation
- Wetland types
- Wetland hydrology
- Restoration ecology and wetland restoration
- Wetlands and global change
- Wetlands as key habitat for wildlife
- 6. Physiography of flowing water
- Characterization of streams
- Streamflow and geology
- Human influences on physical aspects of rivers
- River and stream restoration
- Transport of materials by rivers and streams
- Advanced: characterizing the movement of dissolved materials in rivers and streams
- 7. Lakes and reservoirs: physiography
- Formation: geological processes
- Lake habitats and morphometry
- Unique properties of reservoirs
- Geomorphological evolution of lakes and reservoirs
- Stratification
- Advanced: heat budgets of lakes
- Water movement and currents in lakes
- 8. Types of aquatic organisms
- The species concept
- Chemical taxonomic methods
- Molecular approaches for assessing taxonomy and diversity in natural environments
- Molecular methods for general aquatic ecology
- Major taxonomic groups
- Classification of organisms by function, habitats, and interactions
- Organisms found in freshwaters
- 9. Microbes and plants
- Viruses
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Protoctista
- Fungi
- Plantae
- 10. Multicellular animals
- Invertebrates
- Phylum chordata, subphylum vertebrata
- 11. Evolution of organisms and biodiversity of freshwaters
- Measures of diversity
- Temporal and spatial factors influencing evolution of freshwater organisms
- Short-term factors influencing local distribution of species
- Genetics and populations of species
- Global changes and shifts in biodiversity
- Nonnative species
- Extinction
- What is the value of freshwater species diversity?
- 12. Aquatic chemistry and factors controlling nutrient cycling: Redox and O²
- Chemicals in freshwaters
- Redox potential, potential energy, and chemical transformations
- Oxygen: forms and transformations
- Photosynthesis
- Respiration
- Metabolic balance of photosynthesis and respiration, and temperature effects
- Controls of distribution of dissolved oxygen in the environment
- 13. Carbon
- Forms of a carbon
- Transformations of carbon
- Global emission of methane and carbon dioxide related to inland aquatic habitats and climate change
- A conceptual introduction to nutrient cycling
- The carbon cycle
- 14. Nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and other nutrients
- Nitrogen
- Sulfur
- Phosphorus
- Silicon and iron
- Cycling of other elements
- Gradients of redox and nutrient cycles and interactions among the cycles
- 15. Adaptations to extreme and unusual habitats
- Adaptations to extremes
- Saline lakes
- Hot springs
- Cold habitats
- Temporary waters and small pools
- Ultraoligotrophic habitats
- Hypertrophic habitats
- Deep subsurface habitats
- The water surface layer
- 16. Responses to stress, toxic chemicals, and other pollutants in aquatic ecosystems
- Basic toxicology
- Bioassessment
- Organic pollutants
- Acid precipitation
- Metals and radioactive pollutants
- Nanomaterials
- Salt pollution
- Suspended solids
- Thermal pollution
- Anthropogenic increases in UV radiation
- Urbanization
- 17. Nutrient use and remineralization
- Use of nutrients
- Nutrient limitation and relative availability
- Resource ratios and stoichiometry of primary producers
- Nutrient remineralization
- Stoichiometry of heterotrophs, their food, and nutrient remineralization
- 18. Trophic state and eutrophication
- Definition of trophic state
- Advanced: determining reference nutrient conditions in freshwater environments
- Why does alteration of trophic state by nutrient conditions in freshwater environments
- Why does alteration of trophic state by nutrient pollution matter in lakes?
- Natural and cultural processes of eutrophication
- Relationships among nutrients, water clarity, and phytoplankton: managing eutrophication in lakes
- Advanced: empirical relationships used to predict control of eutrophication
- Mitigating lake eutrophication
- Managing eutrophication in streams and rivers
- Case studies of eutrophication in lakes and lotic systems
- Managing eutrophication in wetlands
- 19. Behavior and interactions among microorganisms and invertebrates
- Behavior of microoorganisms
- Interaction types in communities
- Predation and parasitism, including the microbial loop
- Competition
- Mutualism: facilitation and syntrophy
- Chemical mediation of microbial interactions
- 20. Predation and food webs
- Herbivory
- Dentritivory
- Omnivory
- Adaptation to predation pressure
- Adaptations of predators
- Nonlethal effects of predation
- Trophic levels, food webs, and food chains
- The trophic cascade
- 21. Nonpredatory interspecific interactions among plants and animals in freshwater communities
- Competition
- Mutualism and facilitation
- Other species interactions
- 22. Complex community interactions
- Disturbance
- Succession
- Indirect interactions
- Strong interactors
- Theoretical community ecology and aquatic food webs
- Thresholds and alternative stable states
- Invasion and extinction revisited
- 23. Fish ecology, fisheries, and aquaculture
- Biogeographical and environmental determinants of fish assemblage diversity
- Physiological aspects influencing growth, survival, and reproduction
- Population dynamics of fishes
- Regulating exploitation of fish stocks
- Stocking for fisheries
- Aquaculture
- 24. Freshwater ecosystems
- General approaches to ecosystems
- Secondary production
- Energy fluxes and nutrient cycling
- Nutrient budgets
- Biodiversity and ecosystem function
- Groundwater ecosystems
- Streams and rivers
- Lakes and reservoirs
- Advanced: reservoirs as unique ecosystems
- Wetlands
- Whole-ecosystem experiments
- Comparison of freshwater ecosystems
- 25. Scaling, landscapes, macroecology, and macrosystems in freshwaters
- Scaling
- Landscape ecology
- Macroecology
- Macrosystems
- 26. Conclusions
- Appendix: Experimental design in aquatic ecology
- Glossary
- References
- Taxonomic index
- Geographic index
- Subject index