Fundamentals of Aquacultural Engineering
Aquaculture is the science and technology of balanced support from the biological and engi- producing aquatic plants and animals. It is not neering sciences. However, commercial aqua- new, but has been practiced in certain Eastern culture has become so complex that, in order to cultures for over 2,000 years. However, the role be successful, one must also draw upon the ex- of aquaculture in helping to meet the world's pertise of biologists, engineers, chemists, econ- food shortages has become mor...
Improving the Nation's Water Security
by National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences
Concern over terrorist attacks since 2001 has directed attention to potential vulnerabilities of the nationa (TM)s water and wastewater systems. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which leads federal efforts to protect the water sector, initiated a research program in 2002 to address immediate research and technical support needs. This report, conducted at EPAa (TM)s request, evaluates research progress and provides a long-term vision for EPAa (TM)s research program. The report recommend...
As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. Dur...
Environmental biology of European cyprinids (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, #13)
Members of the family Cyprinidae dominate most of the aquatic habitats of Europe, from eutrophic warm water ponds to mountain lakes. The family comprises generalists and specialists, herbivorous, planktovorous and even one piscivorous species; slow-moving grazers as well as fast-swimming inhabitants of the pelagial of lakes. Due to their diversity and abundance, cyprinids play key roles in every ecosystem in which they occur. Being of little economic importance, however, the family has for the m...
Creatures, Corals, and Other Colors in America's Seas
by Ann Scarborough
The Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology for American Students (Classic Reprint)
by James G Needham
This work is a textbook of fresh-water life dealing with its forms, its conditions, its fitnesses, its associations, and its economic aspects. The ecologic side of fresh-water biology is emphasized. Due consideration is given to the educational, economic, sanitary, social, civic, and aesthetic aspects of the subject.Limnology in America today is in its infancy. The value of its past achievements is just beginning to be appreciated. The benefits to come from a more intensive study of water life a...
Vegetation of Temporary Marshes (Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands S., v. 8)
by P. Grillas and J. Roche
Environmental Change and Response in East African Lakes
by J T Lehman