The Biology of Lakes and Ponds
This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds) combines traditional limnology with current ecological and evolutionary theory. It integrates the effects of abiotic constraints and biotic interactions at both the population and community level, allowing the reader to understand how the distribution and success of different organisms in this freshwater habitat can be explained and predicted. The book is focused on temperate lakes and ponds,...
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Freshwater biology takes on a different edge when that freshwater is standing rather than running through an ecosystem. The authors (both ecology, U. of Lund) combine traditional limnology with current ecological and evolutionary theory, describing the abiotic frame and adaptations to cope with abiotic constraints and the organisms as actors within the abiotic frame. They turn to the biotic element, describing competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism and symbiosis, food wb interactions in freshwater ecosystems, biodiversity and environmental threats. Generously illustrated, this could serve as an undergraduate text or references. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Introduction12The abiotic frame and adaptations to cope with abiotic constraints73The organisms : the actors within the abiotic frame664Biotics : competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism, and symbiosis1075Food web interactions in freshwater ecosystems1636Biodiversity and environmental threats207
