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This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes, three concise chapters describe their physical, chemical and biological features. The following eight chapters present case studies of more than a dozen meromictic lakes, showing the variety of physical and biochemical processes that promote meromixis. The result is a broad picture of the ecology and biochemistry of meromictic lakes in tropical and cold regions, in man-made pit lakes and euxinic marine lakes, and in freshwater as well as hypersaline lakes. In the final chapter the editors provide a synthesis of the topic and conclude that the study of meromictic lakes also offers new insights into the limnology of inland lakes. The book appeals to researchers in the fields of ecology, limnology, environmental physics and biophysics.
Aquatic ecology . --- Geobiology. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Geophysics. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
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This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes, three concise chapters describe their physical, chemical and biological features. The following eight chapters present case studies of more than a dozen meromictic lakes, showing the variety of physical and biochemical processes that promote meromixis. The result is a broad picture of the ecology and biochemistry of meromictic lakes in tropical and cold regions, in man-made pit lakes and euxinic marine lakes, and in freshwater as well as hypersaline lakes. In the final chapter the editors provide a synthesis of the topic and conclude that the study of meromictic lakes also offers new insights into the limnology of inland lakes. The book appeals to researchers in the fields of ecology, limnology, environmental physics and biophysics.
Aquatic ecology . --- Geobiology. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Geophysics. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
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This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes, three concise chapters describe their physical, chemical and biological features. The following eight chapters present case studies of more than a dozen meromictic lakes, showing the variety of physical and biochemical processes that promote meromixis. The result is a broad picture of the ecology and biochemistry of meromictic lakes in tropical and cold regions, in man-made pit lakes and euxinic marine lakes, and in freshwater as well as hypersaline lakes. In the final chapter the editors provide a synthesis of the topic and conclude that the study of meromictic lakes also offers new insights into the limnology of inland lakes. The book appeals to researchers in the fields of ecology, limnology, environmental physics and biophysics.
Aquatic ecology . --- Geobiology. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Geophysics. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
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Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels--70 percent of North American species are imperiled--will mean for humans and wildlife alike. Landis shares this journey, traveling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist.--
Freshwater mussels. --- Freshwater mussels --- Stream ecology --- Freshwater biodiversity conservation --- Freshwater biodiversity conservation. --- Stream ecology. --- River ecology --- Freshwater ecology --- Hyporheic zones --- Conservation of freshwater biodiversity --- Freshwater biological diversity conservation --- Aquatic biodiversity conservation --- Freshwater biodiversity --- Clams, Freshwater --- Fresh-water mussels --- Freshwater clams --- Mussels, Fresh-water --- Naiades (Mollusks) --- Naiads (Mollusks) --- Unionacea --- Freshwater invertebrates --- Mussels --- Unionoida --- Conservation --- Southern States. --- American South --- American Southeast --- Former Confederate States --- Southeast --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- The South --- U.S.
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The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and the Galapagos has had real, enduring and paradoxical effects in the Archipelago. This Twenty Century construct of the Galapagos as the cradle of Darwin’s theory and insights triggered not only the definition of the Galapagos as a living natural laboratory but also the production of a series of conservation practices and the reshaping of the Galapagos as a tourism destination with an increasingly important flow of tourists that potentially threaten its fragile ecosystems. The book argues that the idea of a Darwinian living laboratory has been limited by the success of the very same constructs that promote its conservation. It suggests critical interpretations of this paradox by questioning many of the dichotomies that have been created to understand nature and its conservation. We also explore some possible ways in which Darwin's ideas can be used to better understand the social and natural threats facing the Islands and to develop sustainable and successful management practices. .
Nature conservation. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Nature Conservation. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences.
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Freshwater snails --- Truncatellidae. --- Gastropoda. --- Hydrobiidae. --- Freshwater snails. --- Truncatellidae. --- Gastropoda. --- Hydrobiidae. --- United States, West.
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