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OverviewThe discipline of stream ecology has grown exponentially along with most other areas of science in the last three decades. The field has changed from a fish management-dominated poor-sister of limnology to a discipline with theoretical constructs and ecological insights as rich as those in any area of ecology. A focus on energy transformations, nutrient turnover and the storage and processing of organic substrates has greatly enhanced the development of current paradigms. For example, the data base on microbial-biochemical- invertebrate interactions in streams is now very extensive. A survey of the stream ecology literature reveals the central role played by H.B. Noel Hynes, whom I believe to be the world's premier lotic ecologist. Professor Hynes produced the major text in the field ( The Ecology of Running Waters ) which has served both as an integrative review and as a bridge between the fish-water quality orientation of the fifties and sixties to the process oriented, nutritional resource-watershed perspectives of the seventies. It should also be noted that Professor Hynes' book, The Biology of Polluted Waters , served as a basic reference for the earlier period and he has published over 150 research papers, the great majority in stream ecology, spanning four decades. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. LockPublisher: Springer Science+Business Media Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Edition: 1981 ed. Weight: 0.900kg ISBN: 9780306408984ISBN 10: 0306408988 Pages: 430 Publication Date: 01 December 1981 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction.- Section I Energy Inputs and Transformations.- River Epilithon - a Light and Organic Energy Transducer.- Coarse Particulate Organic Matter in Streams.- Seasonal Aspects of Transport of Organic and Inorganic Matter in Streams.- The Uptake of Dissolved Organic Matter in Groundwater by Stream Sediments - A Case Study.- Aspects of Nitrogen Transport and Transformation in Headwater Streams.- Organic Carbon in Aquatic Ecosystems: Beyond Energy - Control.- Section II Benthos in Time and Space.- Migrations and Distributions of Stream Benthos.- Temporal Heterogeneity and the Ecology of Lotic Ciliates.- The Ecology of Gammarus in Running Water.- Effects of Hydrodynamics on the Distribution of Lake Benthos.- Section III Aspects of Aquatic Environment Perturbations: Management and Application.- Man's Impact on Tropical Rivers.- Aquatic Invertebrates and Palaeoecology: Recent and Future Trends.- Organizational Impediments to Effective Research on Running Waters.- Section IV Regional Running Water Ecology.- Ecology of Streams at High Latitudes.- Running Water Ecology in Africa.- Running Water Ecology in Australia.- Contributors.- Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows of H. B. Noel Hynes.- Publications of H. B. Noel Hynes.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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