Wetzel's Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems

by Ian D. Jones (Editor), John P. Smol (Editor)

Overview

Wetzel’s Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, Fourth Edition, presents a fully updated revision of the classic textbook Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems - last published in 2001. The coverage has been thoroughly updated with recent research and theoretical developments. Each chapter of this edited volume has been written by an expert, or team of experts, providing a comprehensive and global perspective, with the editors working closely with the authors to maintain continuity within and between the chapters. This is not only an essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in limnology but also a standard reference book for seasoned limnologists and other scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128227015
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/09/2023
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	1104
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

IAN JONES, PhD is a physical limnologist in the Biological and Environmental Sciences Division at the University of Stirling (UK), having previously worked for many years at the UK’s Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Lancaster and, before that, the School of the Environment at the University of Leeds (UK). As well as physical limnology studies, his research has focussed on the interaction between lake physics and the biology and chemistry in lakes, studying interactions with phosphorus, carbon, oxygen, bacteria, charophytes, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish. Jones has been working with in situ high-resolution lake data for more than 20 years as well as a variety of physical and biological numerical models.

JOHN P. SMOL, OC, PhD, FRSC, FRS is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen’s University (Canada). Smol founded and co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), a group of ~40 students and other scientists dedicated to the study of long-term global environmental change, and especially as it relates to lake ecosystems. John has authored >660 journal publications and chapters, as well as completed 22 books. Smol was the founding Editor of the J. Paleolimnology (1987-2007) and is current Editor of Environmental Reviews (2004 – present). Since 1990 he has received six honorary doctorates and has been awarded >70 research and teaching awards and fellowships, including the International Society of Limnology Naumann-Thienemann Medal, both the Hutchinson Award and the Margalef Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the International Ecology Institute Prize, and the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal as Canada’s top scientist or engineer. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his environmental work, a Fellow of the Royal Society (London), and was elected President of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada (2019-2022).

Table of Contents

1. Prologue
2. The Importance of Inland Waters
3. Water as a Substance
4. Rivers and Lakes - Their Distribution, Origins, and Forms
5. Hydrological Systems
6. Light in Inland Waters
7. Fate of Heat
8. Water Movements
9. Structure and Productivity of Aquatic Ecosystems
10. Water as a Chemical Environment
11. Oxygen
12. Salinity and Ionic Composition of Inland Waters
13. The Inorganic Carbon Complex
14. The Nitrogen Cycle
15. The Phosphorus Cycle
16. Other Important Elements
17. Algae and Cyanobacteria Communities
18. Ecology of Algae and Cyanobacteria (Phytoplankton)
19. Zooplankton Communities: Diversity in Time and Space
20. Ecology and Functioning of Zooplankton Communities
21. Benthic Animals
22. Fish
23. Pelagic Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses
24. Freshwater Plants
25. Benthic Algae and Cyanobacteria of the Littoral Zone
26. Shallow Lakes and Ponds
27. Sediments and Microbiomes
28. Organic Carbon Cycling and Ecosystem Metabolism
29. Wetlands
30. Paleolimnology: Approaches and Applications
31. Inland Waters: The Future of Limnology is Interdisciplinary, Collaborative, Inclusive, and Global

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A much-anticipated and completely updated edition of late Robert Wetzel’s quintessential textbook on limnology