The biology of lakes and ponds

"This introduction to the biology of standing waters integrates the effects of abiotic constraints and biotic interactions at both the population and community level, and examines how the distribution and success of different organisms in this freshwater habitat can be explained and predicted&q...

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Main Authors: Bronmark, Christer (Author), Hansson, Lars-Anders (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , c2005
Edition:2nd ed
Series:Biology of habitats
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245 1 4 |a The biology of lakes and ponds   |c Christer Bronmark and Lars-Anders Hansson 
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300 |a xiv, 285 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
440 |a Biology of habitats 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-270) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The abiotic frame and adaptations to cope with abiotic constarints -- 3. The organisms: the actors within the abiotic frame -- 4. Biotics: competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism, and symbiosis -- 5. Food web interactions in freshwater ecosystems -- 6. Biodiversity and environmental threats 
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650 0 |a Lake ecology 
650 0 |a Limnology 
650 0 |a Pond ecology 
700 1 |a Hansson, Lars-Anders ,   |e author 
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