Freshwater ecosystems and aquaculture research

Resource Information

The work Freshwater ecosystems and aquaculture research represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Freshwater ecosystems and aquaculture research

Statement of responsibility

Felice De Carlo and Alessio Bassano, editors

Contributor

• Bassano, Alessio, 1965-
• Carlo, Felice de, 1963-

Subject

• Aquaculture -- Environmental aspects
• Aquaculture -- Environmental aspects
• Ecosystem management
• Ecosystem management
• Electronic books
• Freshwater ecology
• Freshwater ecology
• SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Ecology

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"Freshwater ecosystems, such as lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands are a precious and critically important form of natural resource. This book highlights the need for a strong scientific approach to biomonitoring and conservation of fresh waters and identifies key shortcomings in the present approach. Pertinent examples of this come from the rapid advances made recently on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes and in food web research, neither of which have so far informed monitoring and management practices. This book also reviews and describes the morphology and material translocation of emergent plants under a set of different environmental conditions, namely, seasonal, spatial, sediment, water depth and harvesting. Furthermore, the environmental impact of phosphorus (P) waste from the aquaculture industry is increasingly a matter of concern in Japan and elsewhere around the world. This book provides nutritional approaches for the reduction of phosphorus waste from yellowtail, one of the highest of any farmed fish species. Other chapters in this book include a review of the benefits of fish embryo cryopreservation for aquaculture and conservation purposes, a discussion of the position of life-history strategies in community ecology, a comparison of the top-down and bottom-up control philosophies for the food chain model so that the most effective management can be identified, the role of systems theory in sustainable management of freshwater systems and ecosystems and a discussion of the present problems that are related to water and sanitation in Sudan."--Publisher's description

Member of

• Environmental science, engineering and technology series

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

577.6

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

QH541.5.F7

LC item number

F736 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

QH541.5.F7

NAL item number

F736 2010

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Environmental science, engineering and technology series