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| General Concepts of Aquatic Ecosystems | |
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| Ecosystem function and management | |
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| Ecosystem composition and energy sources | |
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| Energy flow and nutrient cycling | |
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| Efficiency of energy and nutrient use | |
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| Management of ecosystems | |
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| Standing crop, productivity and growth limitation | |
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| Pyramid of biomass | |
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| Productivity | |
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| Efficiency of energy transfer | |
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| Population growth and limitation. 3 Hydrographic characteristics | |
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| Types of flow | |
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| Boundary layers | |
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| Physical factors controlling wastewater distribution | |
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| Density effects | |
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| Density currents | |
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| Thermal properties of lakes | |
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| Origin of lakes | |
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| Thermal cycle in a typical mid-latitude regime | |
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| Classification of lakes by temperature regime | |
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| Water movements | |
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| Seiches | |
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| Surface waves | |
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| Wind-driven currents | |
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| Tidal effects | |
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| Water movements in large lakes | |
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| Thermal bar | |
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| Measurement of water movements | |
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| Dispersal processes | |
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| Sedimentation. 4 Nutrient Cycles | |
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| Phosophorus | |
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| Nitrogen | |
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| Sulphur | |
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| Carbon | |
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| Characteristics of pollutants | |
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| Domestic sources | |
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| Urban runoff | |
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| Industrial wastes | |
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| Agricultural wastes | |
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| Biological pollution.Part Two Effects of Pollutants in Standing Water | |
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| Phytoplankton | |
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| Seasonal pattern | |
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| Population growth kinetics and concept of limitation | |
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| Effects of light and mixing | |
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| Effects of temperature | |
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| Nutrient limitation | |
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| Cyanobacterial toxicity | |
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| Cyanobacteria and water supplies. 7 Eutrophication | |
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| Definition | |
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| Phosphorus mass balance models | |
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| Trophic state criteria | |
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| Eutrophication of coastal marine waters. 8 Zooplankton | |
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| Population characteristics | |
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| Population dynamics | |
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| Filtering and grazing | |
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| Zooplankton grazing and eutrophication | |
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| Trophic cascades | |
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| Temperature and oxygen | |
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| Invasive, non-native Zooplankton | |
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| Macrophytes | |
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| Habitats | |
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| Significance of macrophytes | |
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| Effects of light | |
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| Effects of temperature | |
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| Effects of nutrients | |
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| Nutrient recycling | |
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| Alternate stable states | |
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| Invasive, non-native macrophytes | |
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| Lake and reservoir restoration | |
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| Pre-restoration data | |
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| External control on P | |
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| In-lake controls on P | |
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| In-lake controls on biomass. Part Three Effects of Pollutants in Running Water | |
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| Periphyton | |
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| Significance to productivity | |
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| Methods of measurement | |
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| Factors affecting growth of periphytic algae | |
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| Grazing | |
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| Organic nutrients | |
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| Periphyton community change as an index of waste type | |
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| Effects of toxicants | |
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| Nuisance. 12 Benthic macroinvertebrates | |
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| Sampling for benthic macroinvertebrates | |
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| Natural factors affecting community change | |
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| Oxygen as a factor affecting community change | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Effect of food supply on macroinvertebrates | |
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| Effect of organic matter | |
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| Effects of toxic wastes | |
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| Suspended sediment | |
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| Recovery | |
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| Assessment of water quality | |
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| Invasive, non-native invertebrates. 13 Fish | |
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| Dissolved oxygen criteria | |
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| Temperature criteria | |
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| Temperature standards | |
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| Comments on standards | |
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| Global warming | |
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| Toxicants and toxicity | |
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| Invasive, non-native fish | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Description of benthic macroinvertebrates and comments on their biology | |
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| Study questions and answers | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |