Author: Victoria G. Christensen
Publisher: Exploring Earth's Biomes
ISBN: 1543575331
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Book Description
Imagine life on Earth without water. Could you live in such a world? Today, almost all life on Earth relies on water, including plants and animals. The freshwater biome includes lakes, rivers, wetlands, ice, and even water in the ground. This biome holds a source of food, air, and water for plants, animals, and people all over the world. Learn about the geography and resources of the freshwater biome as well as how animals and people have adapted to and impacted freshwater environments. Explore this biome's future and what people can do to help keep it safe.
Author: David Dudgeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108882625
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 517
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Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a 'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals, a 'great shrinking' in body size with reductions in large species, and a 'great mixing' whereby the spread of introduced species has tended to homogenize previously dissimilar communities in different parts of the world. Climate change and warming temperatures will alter global water availability, and exacerbate the other threat factors. What conservation action is needed to halt or reverse these trends, and preserve freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing world? This book offers the tools and approaches that can be deployed to help conserve freshwater biodiversity.
Author: Diane Snowball
Publisher: Mondo Pub
ISBN: 9781879531291
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Introduces rivers, marshes, lakes, streams, and cypress swamps, describes some of the creatures that live in them, and discusses food chains in each type of habitat
Author: Diane Snowball
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417752584
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Introduces rivers, marshes, lakes, streams, and cypress swamps, describes some of the creatures that live in them, and discusses food chains in each type of habitat
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Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761475231
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Alphabetically arranged two-page entries cover the places of the world where creatures live, providing information on weather, plants, animals, and the people that made the area known.
Author: Robert A. Francis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136461248
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Book Description
Invasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity. Often introduced accidentally through international travel or trade, they invade and colonize new habitats, often with devastating consequences for the local flora and fauna. Their environmental impacts can range from damage to resource production (e.g. agriculture and forestry) and infrastructure (e.g. buildings, road and water supply), to human health. They consequently can have major economic impacts. It is a priority to prevent their introduction and spread, as well as to control them. Freshwater ecosystems are particularly at risk from invasions and are landscape corridors that facilitate the spread of invasives. This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the most notable global invasive freshwater species or groups, based on their severity of economic impact, geographic distribution outside of their native range, extent of research, and recognition of the ecological severity of the impact of the species by the IUCN. As well as some of the very well-known species, the book also covers some invasives that are emerging as serious threats. Examples covered include a range of aquatic and riparian plants, insects, molluscs, crustacea, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, as well as some major pathogens of aquatic organisms. The book also includes overview chapters synthesizing the ecological impact of invasive species in fresh water and summarizing practical implications for the management of rivers and other freshwater habitats.
Author: James H. Thorp
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123748550
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Book Description
"The third edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates continues the tradition of in-depth coverage of the biology, ecology, phylogeny, and identification of freshwater invertebrates from the USA and Canada. This text serves as an authoritative single source for a broad coverage of the anatomy, physiology, ecology, and phylogeny of all major groups of invertebrates in inland waters of North America, north of Mexico." --Book Jacket.
Author: Laurie Toupin
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417649327
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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A look at the plants, animals, locations, and various habitats that make up the freshwater ecosystems of the world.
Author: Iain Campbell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197563
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Habitats of Australasia (Australia, NZ and New Guinea) -- Habitats of the Neotropics (Central and South America) -- Habitats of the Afrotropics (SSaharan Africa) -- Habitats of the Palearctic (Europe, North Asia and North Africa) -- Habitats of the Nearctic (North America).
Author: Brian R. Moss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119239400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Book Description
The new edition of this established textbook, now with full colour illustration, has been extensively revised and continues to provide a comprehensive, stimulating, readable and authoritative coverage of freshwater habitats, their communities and their functioning, the world over. The work will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students, fellow researchers and water managers, and the plain language and lack of jargon should make it accessible to anyone interested in the functioning and current state of lakes and rivers. Having taught and researched over fifty years and six continents, Professor Brian Moss makes here extensive use of his personal experience as well as the huge literature now available on freshwaters. This is the fifth edition of his textbook, which, since the first edition in 1980, has steadily evolved to reflect a rapidly changing science and environment. It places increasing emphasis on the role of people in damaging and managing freshwaters as we move into the Anthropocene epoch and face unprecedented levels of climate and other changes, whilst rejoicing in the fascination of what are left of near pristine freshwater ecosystems. Professor Moss retired from the University of Liverpool following a career in Africa, the USA and the UK. He was awarded medals by the International Society for Limnology, of which he was President from 2007 to 2013, and The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. He was given The Ecology Institute's Excellence in Ecology Prize in 2009 and the book written for that prize, Liberation Ecology, was awarded the British Ecological Society's best ecology book prize in 2013.
