Biology of Lakes and Ponds

Christer Brönmark and Lars-Anders Hansson are both Professors in the Limnology Division of the Department of Ecology in the University of Lund, Sweden.

• Foreword by Nelson Hairston Jr. ; Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The abiotic frame and adaptations to cope with abiotic constraints ; 3. The organisms: the actors within the abiotic frame ; 4. Biotics: competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism, and symbiosis ; 5. Food web interactions in freshwater ecosystems ; 6. Environment and conservation ; References ; Further reading ; Glossary ; Index

...this edition keeps the book as the foremost introductory text to the subject. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 37:1