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Crater Lake is located in the caldera of Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The lake has a surface area of about 53 km2 at an elevation of 1882 m and a maximum depth of 594 m ¿ seventh deepest in the world. Limited studies of this ultraoligotrophic lake conducted between 1896 and 1981, lead to a 10-year limnological study to evaluate any potential degradation of water quality. No long-term variations in water quality were observed that could be attributed to anthropogenic activity. Building on the success of this study, a permanent limnological program has been established with a long-term monitoring program to insure a reliable data base for use in the future. Of equal importance, this program serves as a research platform to develop and communicate to the public a better understanding of the coupled biological, physical, and geochemical processes in the lake and its surrounding environment. This special volume represents our current state of knowledge of the status of this pristine ecosystem including its special optical properties, algal nutrient limitations, pelagic bacteria, and models of the inter-relationships of thermal properties, nutrients, phytoplankton, deep-water mixing, and water budgets.

`Jellyfish', a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatures have come to public attention as featured exhibits in aquaria and in news headlines as invaders and as providers of genes used in biomedical research. Nevertheless, jellyfish are generally considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen and fish farms, and competing with fish and eating fish eggs and larvae. There is concern that environmental changes such as global warming, eutrophication, and over-fishing may result in increased jellyfish populations. The literature reviews and research papers in this volume explore the interactions between jellyfish and humans. Papers cover the medical aspects of jellyfish stings, jellyfish as human food and jellyfish fisheries, interactions of jellyfish and fish, effects of environmental changes on jellyfish, effects of introduced ctenophores on the Black Sea ecosystem, factors causing increases or concentrations of jellyfish, and others aspects of jellyfish ecology. This is an important reference for students and professional marine biologists, oceanographers, fishery scientists, and aquarists.

The present volume comprises aspects of both basic and applied limnology. They include works on physical, chemical, and biological limnology, as well as experimental approaches in selected areas.Contributions from investigators regarding aquatic conservation and biodiversity were specifically not available and therefore, these aspects are considered in various included works. Most manuscripts deal with lentic aquatic resources. This is not surprising since Mexican limnology followed the general study trend of that from temperate limnology. Despite this, we must emphasize that lotic resources in Mexico are quite important both locally and regionally. This does not mean that rivers are not under limnological research in Mexico, just that their study has only recently begun.It is the intention of the volume to stimulate a larger section of limnologists to further research in this field. It is to be hoped that policy-framing governmental authorities in Mexico will benefit from it, and consider some of the aspects described so that further damage to the epicontinental waterbodies can be halted, and remedial measures can be considered in the future.

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The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondoenia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest fron tier.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium

Proceedings of the Symposium on Perspectives in Southern Hemisphere Limnology held in Wilderness, South Africa, 3-13 July 1984

This volume originated in a belief, shared by the two editors, that the time was ripe for a world-wide survey - or at least sampling - of seasonality in freshwater phytoplankton. Thus one may expect to find the geographical differentiation of climatic patterns reflected in the seasonal patterns of algal occurrence.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Turbellaria held at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 5-10, 1984

Proceedings of the Second International Meeting on Nemertean Biology, Tjarnoe Marine Biology Laboratory, August 11-15, 1986

Proceedings of the Fourth International Rotifer Symposium Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 18-25, 1985

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 27-August, 1986.

Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Aberystwyth, Wales, 1984

Proceedings of a Symposium held in Brussels, Belgium, December 9-12, 1985

Proceedings of the Cladocera Symposium, Budapest 1985

Proceedings of a symposium held in Uppsala, Sweden, September 25-28, 1985

On behalf of the participants we express our thanks for the generous sponsorship received from the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Ministry of Education, Lammi Biological Station and the Finnish Limnological Society.

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium held in Hamburg, Germany, September 29-October 4, 1984

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, held at Nairobi, Kenya, August 1985

Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaete Biology

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Seaweed Symposium held in Vancouver, Canada, August 13-18, 1989

Proceedings of the 18th EBSA Symposium held in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 29th August to 2nd September 1988

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biolology, held at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 6-11 July 2003

This book summarizes the latest advances in sponge science through a concise selection of studies presented at the VIII World Sponge Conference.

This book summarizes research from 50 years of intensive study of a pristine subalpine lake ecosystem and its catchment. Coverage spans a range of topics, including studies focusing on changes in ice cover, water temperature, zooplankton, benthos and fish.

Long-term population monitoring is an important tool in our investigations of the role waterbirds play in their environment. Papers presented in this volume further our understanding of the important role that limnology plays in determining habitat suitability for waterbirds.