Australian Freshwater Ecology: Processes and Management
In: New York Academy of Sciences Series
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About this book -- About the companion website -- PART I: Processes in Aquatic Ecosystems -- CHAPTER 1: Australian waters: diverse, variable and valuable -- 1.1 The Challenge for Aquatic Ecologists -- 1.2 Defining Some Common Terms -- 1.3 Australian Inland Waters: Their Diversity and Distribution -- 1.4 The Water Regime: 'Where, When and to What Extent Water is Present' -- 1.4.1 Water budgets, scale issues and human influences on water regimes -- 1.4.2 Components of the water regime -- 1.4.3 Water regime variability -- 1.5 Linkages in Aquatic Ecosystems: from Molecular Bonds to Global Exchanges -- 1.5.1 Wonderful water and its molecular linkages -- 1.5.2 Linkages at the catchment scale -- 1.5.3 Linkages at the global scale: the hydrological cycle -- 1.5.4 Continental linkages and surface waters in Australia -- 1.5.5 Continental linkages and groundwaters in Australia -- 1.6 The Structure of This Book -- CHAPTER 2: Physical processes in standing waters -- 2.1 Depth and Physical Processes -- 2.2 Let There Be Light ... -- 2.2.1 Light reaching the water surface -- 2.2.2 Light below the water surface -- 2.2.3 Seeing through water: Secchi discs and quantum sensors -- 2.3 The Euphotic Zone -- 2.4 Light and Life -- 2.5 Temperature and Stratification -- 2.5.1 Causes of stratification -- 2.6 Using Circulation Patterns to Classify Standing Waters -- 2.7 Ecological Implications of the Different Types of Stratification and Mixing -- 2.8 Deep Versus Shallow Standing Waters: Depth Matters -- 2.8.1 How deep standing waters form -- 2.8.2 How shallow standing waters form -- 2.9 Synthesis -- CHAPTER 3: Chemical processes in standing waters -- 3.1 'There's a Certain Chemistry ...' -- 3.2 Dissolved Gases -- 3.2.1 Oxygen -- 3.2.2 Carbon dioxide -- 3.2.3 Hydrogen -- 3.2.4 Methane -- 3.3 Sources of Ions.