Dynamic Aquaria
eBook - ePub

Dynamic Aquaria

Building Living Ecosystems

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Dynamic Aquaria

Building Living Ecosystems

About this book

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 interaction of species populations - The development of new techniques for global scale restoration of water and atmosphere - The development of new techniques for closed system, sustainable aquaculture

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780080469102
Edition
3
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments and Dedication
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: The Envelope: Physical Parameters and Energy State
  8. Chapter 3: Substrate: The Active Role of Rock, Mud, and Sand
  9. Chapter 4: Water Composition: Management of Salinity, Hardness, and Evaporation
  10. Chapter 5: The Input of Solar Energy: Lighting Requirements
  11. Chapter 6: The Input of Organic Energy: Particulates and Feeding
  12. Chapter 7: Metabolism: Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Biological Loading
  13. Chapter 8: Organisms and Gas Exchange: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, pH, and Alkalinity
  14. Chapter 9: The Primary Nutrients – Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Silica: Limitation and Eutrophication
  15. Chapter 10: Biomineralization and Calcification: A Key to Biosphere and Ecosystem Function
  16. Chapter 11: Control of the Biochemical Environment: Filters, Bacteria, and the Algal Turf Scrubber
  17. Chapter 12: Community Structure: Biodiversity in Model Ecosystems
  18. Chapter 13: Trophic Structure: Ecosystems and the Dynamics of Food Chains
  19. Chapter 14: Primary Producers: Plants That Grow on the Bottom
  20. Chapter 15: Herbivores: Predators of Plants and Omnivores, Predators of Plants and Animals
  21. Chapter 16: Carnivores: Predators of Animals
  22. Chapter 17: Plankton and Planktivores: Floating Plants and Animals and Their Predators
  23. Chapter 18: Detritus and Detritivores: The Dynamics of Muddy Bottoms
  24. Chapter 19: Symbionts and Other Feeders
  25. Chapter 20: Models of Coral Reef Ecosystems
  26. Chapter 21: A Subarctic/Boreal Microcosm
  27. Chapter 22: Estuaries
  28. Chapter 23: Freshwater Ecosystem Models
  29. Chapter 24: Organisms and Natural Products
  30. Chapter 25: Large Scale
  31. Chapter 26: Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Macrocosms
  32. Index
  33. Colour Plates