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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press ,
c2005
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Series: | Biology of habitats
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Table of Contents:
- 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