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Freshwater ecology

A scientific introduction

Department of zoology

Dunedin

Barbara downes

Andrew boulton

contents

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. The tools of freshwater ecological science.

Chapter 1: What is ecological science?

Chapter 2: How does scale of measurement affect what we see?

Chapter 3: Wonderful water: Linkages from the atom to the biosphere

Chapter 4: What is in lakes?

Chapter 5: What is in rivers and streams?

<!--Fundamental Ecological Questions.

chapter 6: How are population numbers and structure affected by dispersal?

chapter 7: Why do organisms occupy particular habitats?

chapter 8: How do freshwater communities recover from disturbance?

chapter 9: What is the impact of predators in freshwater systems?

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3. Applied Freshwater Ecology.

chapter 10: What are ecological effects of changing a water regime?

chapter 11: How do we assess the impact of pollution?

chapter 12: Can we fix smelly, green lakes?

chapter 13: What is the impact of introduced species?

Concluding remarks

Blackwell

Publishing

prep./ NABILA elNAGdy

MANGE./ HUDA HOSNEY