Product Description

Limnology is the study of the structural and functional interrelationships of organisms of inland waters as they are affected by their dynamic physical, chemical, and biotic environments. Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, 3rd Edition, is a new edition of this established classic text. The coverage remains rigorous and uncompromising and has been thoroughly reviewed and updated with evolving recent research results and theoretical understanding. In addition, the author has expanded coverage of lakes to reservoir and river ecosystems in comparative functional analyses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352312 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 850 pages

Review
"This newest edition is marked not only by substantial reworking, updating, and addition but also by the maturation of the author's understanding of freshwater ecosystems, and understanding that has been amassed from years of study and analysis of his own and others' research. ...the author's ability to put the tremendous array of subjects into context is nothing short of remarkable. ...this book is a timely and masterful revision, and it should be on the shelf and in the classroom of every practicing freshwater algal ecologist and limnologist."
--Carole E. Lembi, Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, in JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY (2001)

Customer Reviews

A must for a small aquarist to the next generation ecologist
Limnology is a book that covers the whole deal in the lake and river ecossistems in a consise, didactic and scientificly correct way. The knowledge potential within it's covers is astonishing and shouldn't be ignored by anyone who wishes to thrive in the biology / ecology area. From basic water chemistry to nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, sulfur and silica cycles, from water microorganisms to land animals and plants and the interaction of all these factors, Limnology covers it all.
It's like a Nature-English dictionary.