Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process

Abstract

This volume is based on a joint meeting of the British Ecological Society and the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography. Comparing freshwater and marine ecosystems, the book examines the extent to which the scale of approach influences the ecological patterns observed and the underlying processes implied. Chapters span the whole spectrum of aquatic systems from small temporary pockets of water held in plant stems to the deep oceans: and address temporal scales from short-term behaviour to evolutionary biology, biogeographic patterns and palaeoecology.