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Ecology of freshwaters A view for the twenty-first century Brian Moss

By: Publication details: UK; Wiley-blackwell c2010Edition: 4th edDescription: ix, 470p.: ill. 25cmISBN:
  • 9781405113328
DDC classification:
  • 22 577.6 MOS
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Table of contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Water, a remarkable un remarkable substance 10
3. Why the chemistry of water is so important 25
4. More water chemistry: The key nutrients, trace elements and organic matter 37
5. Light thrown upon the waters 54
6. Evolution and diversity of freshwater organisms 61
7. Headwater streams and rivers, 89
8. Uses, misuses and restoration of headwater streams 127
9. Middle stage and depositional floodplain rivers 157
10. Floodplain ecosystems and human affairs 186
11. Lakes and other standing waters 216
12. The communities of shallow standing waters: Mires Shallow lakes and the littoral Zone 245
13. Plankton communities of the pelagic zone 267
14. The profundal Zone 308
15. The uses, abuses and restoration of standing waters 322
16. Climate change and the future of freshwaters 380
17. Problem exercises 411



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