| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 672 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Zwick -- The Breitenbach and its catchment / Jürgen Marxsen, Rüdiger Wagner, and Hans-Heinrich Schmidt -- Environmental characteristics / Hans-Heinrich Schmidt --Detrital energy sources / Jürgen Marxsen and Rüdiger Wagner -- Primary producers / Eileen J. Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, and Thomas G. Horvath -- Bacteria and fungi / Jürgen Marxsen -- The fauna of the Breitenbach / Peter Zwick, Georg Becker, Rüdiger Wagner, Joachim Reidelbach, and Heino Christl -- Ecosystem Breitenbach / Rüdiger Wagner, Jürgen Marxsen, Hans-Heinrich Schmidt, Michael Obach, Peter Zwick -- Summary / Georg Becker, Eileen J. Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, Hans-Heinrich Schmidt, Rüdiger Wagner, and Peter Zwick |
| Summary |
This is an astonishing book and a great achievement by the small band of scientists who have written it. The Max Planck Society's "Flußstation" (River Station) was active from 1951 to 2006 at Schlitz, in Hessen in central Germany, focused on the ecology of a single small stream, The Breitenbach (in English "Wide Brook.") This concentration of effort was partly because the larger River Fulda, of which the Breitenbach is a first order tributary, had become very polluted, and it offered a more "pristine" ecosystem for study. The program was initiated by two giants of early stream ecology: Joachim Illies was the founder of the "river zonation" school of lotic ecologists and Karl Müller was the originator of the eponymous "Müller's colonization cycle". Their pioneering work was carried on by a small team of scientists (five at any one time) plus assistants, mainly under the leadership of Peter Zwick, and this book is a testament to their dedication, persistence, and skill. This book is a unique compendium of detailed information on a stream, crucially including the underlying--now publicly accessible--data. The next generation of students should exploit and pore over this material because quality and reliability (of taxonomy and methodology) shine through the pages; these were all very highly skilled aquatic ecologists working with the best equipment, and the results are the best |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-661), and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Limnology.
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Freshwater biology.
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Aquatic ecology.
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Water -- Pollution.
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Water quality.
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Environmental health.
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Aquatic ecology
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Environmental health
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Freshwater biology
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Limnology
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Water -- Pollution
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Water quality
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marxsen, Jürgen, editor
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Zwick, Peter, editor
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Cox, Eileen J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783527634675 |
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3527634673 |
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