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Freshwater Ecology: A Scientific Introduction

Gerry Closs, Barbara Downes, Andrew Boulton
ISBN: 978-0-632-05266-0
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240 pages
December 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

Part I: The Tools Of Freshwater Ecological Science.

1. What Is Ecological Science?.

2. How Does Scale Of Measurement Affect What We See?.

3. Wonderful Water: Linkages From The Atom To The Biosphere.

4. What’s In A Lake?.

5. What’s In Rivers And Streams?.

Part II: Fundamental Ecological Questions.

6. How Are Population Numbers And Structure Affected By Dispersal?.

7. Why Do Organisms Occupy Particular Habitats?.

8. How Do Freshwater Communities Recover From Disturbance?.

9. What Is The Impact Of Predators In Freshwater Systems?.

Part III: Applied Freshwater Ecology.

10. What Are The Ecological Effects Of Changing A Water Regime?.

11. How Do We Assess The Impact Of Pollution?.

12. Can We Fix Smelly, Green Lakes?.

13. What Is The Impact Of Introduced Species?.

Concluding Remarks.

Index.

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