The classical approach of limnologists has been to consider the interactions between lake
ecosystem components as an unidirectional flow of influence from nutrients to the …

Microbial mats occur in nature as stratified communities of cyanobacteria and bacteria, but
they can be cultured on large-scale and manipulated for a variety of functions. They are …

Feeding Ecology of Fish establishes a comprehensive framework for the variable ecological
patterns exemplified by feeding fishes. The author, a former president of the American …

When the first edition of Inland Fishes of California was published in 1976, it was a
benchmark reference. Since that time, our knowledge of California's freshwater fishes has …

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects,
examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns …

This review places the life-history styles of fishes associated with South African estuaries in
a global context and presents a classification system incorporating all the major life-history …

This is self-contained text reviewing tropical limnology. It discusses a number of
communities in detail, including plankton, benthic regions, and the water margins. It …

Lakes and rivers of the tropics are rich with variety and human relevance, yet do not figure
prominently in surveys of general freshwater biology and limnology. The details of the …

Herbivorous fishes and invertebrates are conspicious elements of coral reef communities
where they predominate both in numbers and biomass. Herbivores and the coral reef algae …

In order for biodiversity to be conserved, it is important to know how and where diverse
populations of plants and animals exist, to understand the effects of human impacts on them …