Dynamic Aquaria :Building Living Ecosystems ( 3 )

Publication subTitle :Building Living Ecosystems

Publication series :3

Author: Adey   Walter H.;Loveland   Karen  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9780080469102

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780123706416

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780123706416

Subject: S96 Aquaculture technology

Language: ENG

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Description

In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. Dynamic Aquaria further offers an understanding developed in 25 years of living ecosystem modeling and discusses how this knowledge has produced methods of efficiently solving many environmental problems. Public education through this methodology is the additional key to the broader ecosystem understanding necessary to allow human society to pass through the next evolutionary bottleneck of our species. Living systems modeling as a wide spectrum educational tool can provide a primary vehicle for that essential step.

This third editon covers the many technological and biological developments in the eight plus years since the second edition, providing updated technological advice and describing many new example aquarium environments.

  • Includes 16 page color insert with 57 color plates and 25% new photographs
  • Offers 300 figures and 75 tables
  • New chapter on Biogeography
  • Over 50% new research in various chapters
  • Significant updates in chapters include:
    • The understanding of coral reef function especially the relationship between photosynthesis and calcification
    • The use of living system models to solve problems of biogeography and the geographic dispersal and int

Chapter

FRONT COVER

pp.:  1 – 4

COPYRIGHT PAGE

pp.:  5 – 6

CONTENTS

pp.:  6 – 12

PREFACE

pp.:  12 – 16

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DEDICATION

pp.:  16 – 18

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

pp.:  18 – 28

PART I: PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

pp.:  28 – 118

PART II: BIOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT

pp.:  118 – 188

PART III: BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

pp.:  188 – 358

PART IV: ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN MICROCOSMS, MESOCOSMS, AND AQUARIA

pp.:  358 – 472

PART V: THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

pp.:  472 – 508

PART VI: SUMMARY

pp.:  508 – 518

INDEX

pp.:  518 – 526

COLOR PLATES

pp.:  526 – 557

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