Wetzel's Limnology
Lake and River Ecosystems
- 4th Edition - October 9, 2023
- Editors: Ian D. Jones, John P. Smol
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 7 0 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 7 1 0 - 7
Wetzel’s Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, Fourth Edition, presents a fully updated revision of the classic textbook Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems - last publis… Read more
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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.
Chapters from the third edition have been updated by an international team of experts, incorporating developments from the past two decades
Several new chapters have been added, reflecting exciting developments in the field of limnology
New color illustrations and images throughout
Detailed summaries at the end of each chapter
Limnology undergraduates and professors teaching these courses and as a first ‘port of call’ for career limnologists and related scientists and consultants wishing to check information
- Prologue
- The Importance of Inland Waters
- Water as a Substance
- Rivers and Lakes - Their Distribution, Origins, and Forms
- Hydrological Systems
- Light in Inland Waters
- Fate of Heat
- Water Movements
- Structure and Productivity of Aquatic Ecosystems
- Water as a Chemical Environment
- Oxygen
- Salinity and Ionic Composition of Inland Waters
- The Inorganic Carbon Complex
- The Nitrogen Cycle
- The Phosphorus Cycle
- Other Important Elements
- Algae and Cyanobacteria Communities
- Ecology of Algae and Cyanobacteria (Phytoplankton)
- Zooplankton Communities: Diversity in Time and Space
- Ecology and Functioning of Zooplankton Communities
- Benthic Animals
- Fish
- Pelagic Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses
- Freshwater Plants
- Benthic Algae and Cyanobacteria of the Littoral Zone
- Shallow Lakes and Ponds
- Sediments and Microbiomes
- Organic Carbon Cycling and Ecosystem Metabolism
- Wetlands
- Paleolimnology: Approaches and Applications
- Inland Waters: The Future of Limnology is Interdisciplinary, Collaborative, Inclusive, and Global
- Edition: 4
- Published: October 9, 2023
- Language: English
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Ian D. Jones
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UKJS
John P. Smol
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).
Affiliations and expertise
Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaRead Wetzel's Limnology on ScienceDirect