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Encyclopedia of inland waters [electronic resource] / editor-in-chief, Gene E. Likens.

Contains over 240 individual articles covering various broad topics including properties of water hydrologic cycles, surface and groundwater hydrology, hydrologic balance, lakes of the world, rivers of the world, light and heat in aquatic ecosystems, hydrodynamics and mixing in rivers, reservoirs, a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Other Authors: Likens, Gene E., 1935-
Other title:Inland waters.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Amsterdam] ; [Boston] : Elsevier, 2009.
Subjects:
Limnology > Encyclopedias.
Fresh water > Encyclopedias.
Fresh water.
Limnology.
Encyclopedias.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1
  • INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEWS
  • Inland waters / G.E. Likens
  • Limnology as a discipline / J.J. Cole
  • Aesthetic values of lakes and rivers / J.R. Corrigan, K.J. Egan, and J.A. Downing
  • Aquatic ecosystem services / K.E. Limburg
  • Water as a human resource / J. Lundqvist
  • AIR/WATER AND LAND/WATER INTERFACES, WETLANDS, AND THE LITTORAL ZONE
  • Aquatic plants: a general introduction / J.E. Titus and R.A. Urban
  • Aquatic plants and attached algae / Y. Vadeboncoeur
  • Coarse woody debris in lakes and streams / G.G. Sass
  • Gas exchange at the air-water interface / D.L. Bade
  • Littoral zone / J.A. Peters and D.M. Lodge
  • Mosses (Bryophytes) / S.K. Rice
  • Neuston in aquatic environments / H.G. Marshall and M.I. Gladyshev
  • ALGAE (INCL. CYANOBACTERIA): TYPES, PHYTOPLANKTON, AND EUTROPHICATION/REMEDIATION
  • Algae / L. Krienitz
  • Algae of river ecosystems / R.J. Stevenson
  • Chrysophytes: golden algae / J. Kristiansen
  • Comparative primary production / M.T. Dokulil
  • Cyanoprokaryota and other prokaryotic algae / A. Sukenik, T. Zohary, and J. Padisák
  • Diatoms / S. Sabater
  • Eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs / V. Istvánovics
  • Green algae / L. Naselli-Flores and R. Barone
  • Other phytoflagellates and groups of lesser importance / N. Salmasso and M. Tolotti
  • Photosynthetic periphyton and surfaces / M.E. Azim
  • Phytoplankton nutrition and related mixotrophy / J.A. Raven and S.C. Maberly
  • Phytoplankton population dynamics in natural environments / C.S. Reynolds
  • Phytoplankton population dynamics: concepts and performance measurement / C.S. Reynolds
  • Phytoplankton productivity / M.T. Dokulil and C. Kaiblinger
  • The phycogeography of freshwater algae / J. Padisák
  • APPLIED ASPECTS OF INLAND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
  • Agriculture / J.R. Jones and J.A. Downing
  • Aquaculture, freshwater / C.E. Boyd
  • Biomanipulation of aquatic ecosystems / L.-A. Hansson and C. Brönmark
  • Conservation of aquatic ecosystems / R. Abell [and others]
  • Effects of recreation and commercial shipping / J.E. Vermaat
  • Harmful algal blooms / J.M. Burkholder
  • International water convention and treaties / A.T. Wolf
  • Lake and reservoir management / E. Jeppesen [and others]
  • Lake management, criteria / A.C. Cardoso [and others]
  • Restoration ecology of rivers / B.G. Laub and M.A. Palmer
  • Restoration of acid drainage / W. Geller [and others]
  • Transboundary aquifer resources / S. Puri
  • Urban aquatic ecosystems / J.L. Meyer
  • BIOLOGICAL INTEGRATION AMONG INLAND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
  • Biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems / A.P. Covich
  • Biological interactions in river ecosystems / C.E. Cushing and J.D. Allan
  • Competition among aquatic organisms / M.J. Vanni [and others]
  • Dystrophy / L.J. Tranvik
  • The ecological niche in aquatic ecosystems / W.M. Lewis
  • Ecological zonation in lakes / W.M. Lewis
  • Endemism in aquatic ecosystems / K. Martens and H. Segers
  • Lakes as ecosystems / W.M. Lewis
  • Modeling of lake ecosystems / L. Håkanson
  • Models of ecological processes in riverine ecosystems / J.H. Thorp
  • Ontogeny of aquatic ecosystems / M. Brenner and J. Escobar
  • Paleolimnology / J.P. Smol
  • Regulators of biotic processes in stream and river ecosystems / M.E. Power
  • Sediments of aquatic ecosystems / J. Bloesch
  • Streams and rivers as ecosystems / S.G. Fisher and R.A. Sponseller
  • Trophic dynamics in aquatic ecosystems / U. Gaedke
  • HYDRODYNAMICS AND MIXING IN LAKES, RESERVOIRS, WETLANDS, AND RIVERS
  • The benthic boundary layer (in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs) / A. Lorke and S. MacIntyre
  • Biological-physical interactions / C.S. Reynolds
  • Currents in rivers / A.N. Sukhodolov, H.-P. Kozerski, and B.L. Rhoads
  • Currents in stratified water bodies 1: density-driven flows / F. Peeters and R. Kipfer
  • Currents in stratified water bodies 2: internal waves / L. Boegman
  • Currents in stratified water bodies 3: effects of rotation / J.P. Antenucci
  • Currents in the upper mixed layer and unstratified water bodies / F.J. Rueda and J. Vidal
  • Density stratification and stability / B. Boehrer and M. Schultze
  • Flow in wetlands and macrophyte beds / A.M. Folkard and M.J. Coates
  • Flow modification by submerged vegetation / H.M. Nepf
  • Hydrodynamical modeling / B.R. Hodges
  • Small-scale turbulence and mixing: energy fluxes in stratified lakes / A. Wüest and A. Lorke
  • The surface mixed layer in lakes and reservoirs / S.G. Monismith and S. MacIntyre
  • HYDROLOGY
  • Atmospheric water and precipitation / K. Fienberg and E. Foufoula-Georgiou
  • Evapotranspiration / G. Katul and K. Novick
  • Fluvial export / M. Meybeck
  • Fluvial transport of suspended solids / P.Y. Julien
  • Ground water / W.M. Alley
  • Ground water and surface water interaction / H.M. Valett and R.W. Sheibley
  • Groundwater chemistry / J.W. LaBaugh
  • Hydrological cycle and water budgets / T.N. Narasimhan
  • Rivers / P.A. Bukaveckas
  • Snow and ice / G. Hornberger and T.C. Winter
  • Springs / D.S. Glazier
  • Streams / E. Wohl
  • Vadose water / J.R. Nimmo
  • Wetland hydrology / R.W. Tiner.

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