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Freshwater ecology : a scientific introduction /

by Closs, Gerry; Downes, Barbara J; Boulton, Andrew J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Malden, MA. : Blackwell Pub. Co., 2004Description: xiv, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 063205266X (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Freshwater ecology
Contents:
What is ecological science? -- How does scale of measurement affect what we see? -- Wonderful water: linkages from the atom to the biosphere -- What's in a lake? -- What's in rivers and streams? -- Fundamental ecological questions -- How are population numbers and structure affected by dispersal? -- Why do organisms occupy particular habitats? -- How do freshwater communities recover from disturbance? -- What is the impact of predators in freshwater systems? -- Applied freshwater ecology -- What are the ecological effects of changing a water regime? -- How do we assess the impact of pollution? -- Can we fix smelly, green lakes? -- What is the impact of introduced species?.
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