Table of Contents:
  • Lake basin characteristics and morphometry
  • Light and temperature
  • Physical characteristics : lake models
  • The heat budget of lakes
  • Morphology and flow in streams
  • Dissolved oxygen
  • Inorganic nutrients : nitrogen, phosphorous, and other nutrients
  • The inorganic carbon complex : alkalinity, acidity, CO2, pH, total inorganic carbon, hardness, aluminum
  • Organic matter
  • Composition and biomass of phytoplankton
  • Collection, enumeration, and biomass of zooplankton
  • Benthic fauna of lakes Benthic fauna of streams
  • Primary productivity of phytoplankton
  • Feeding rates by protists and larger zooplankton
  • Zooplankton production
  • Predator-prey interactions
  • Enumeration of fish or other aquatic animals
  • Bacterial growth and productivity
  • Decomposition : relative bacterial heterotrophic activity on soluble organic matter
  • Decomposition : particulate organic matter
  • The littoral zone
  • Experimental manipulation of model ecosystems
  • Diurnal changes in a stream ecosystem : an energy and nutrient budget approach
  • Diurnal changes in lake systems
  • Special lake tytpes
  • Historical recoirds of changes in the productivity of lakes
  • Effect of sewage outfall on a stream ecosystem
  • Estimates of whole lake metabolism : hypolimnetic oxygen deficits and carbon dioxide accumulation.
  • Appendixes
  • General chemical relationships
  • Basic definitions used in community analyses
  • Useful relationships relative to the use of colorimetrics and spectrophotometers
  • SI conversion factors.