Advanced Aquatic Biology

Author: Liu Jiankang
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is compiled by experts and professors from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, based on their years of teaching aquatic biology courses to graduate students. It emphasizes fundamentals while also covering applications. The book consists of 16 chapters: the general part includes 5 chapters on water environment, freshwater biopopulations, freshwater biocoenoses, ecosystems, and aquatic biomass productivity; the specific part includes 7 chapters on aquatic bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton, macrophytes, benthic animals, periphyton, and freshwater fish, focusing on ecological functions; the applied aquatic biology part includes 4 chapters on biological issues of water pollution, fisheries biology, aquatic biological resources and conservation, and the application of mathematics in aquatic biology. This book can serve as a textbook for doctoral and master's degree students in aquatic biology, and also holds significant reference value for biology department faculty and students, environmental science workers, aquaculture science workers, and ecological research workers.