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LIMNOLOGY

The study of lakes, ponds and other standing waters, including physical and chemical characteristics of water and sediment, the biota and the relationship of the aquatic ecosystem to the catchment.

[See alsoaquatic environment, lacustrine sediments, lake stratification and zonation, lake-level variations, lakes as indicators of environmental change, palaeolimnology]

Hilary H.BirksUniversity of Bergen
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n2275
10.4135/9781446247501.n2275

HutchinsonGE (1957) A treatise on limnology, volume 1: Geography & physics of lakes.New York: Wiley.
HutchinsonGE (1967) A treatise on limnology, volume 2: Introduction to lake biology and the limnoplankton.New York: Wiley.
HutchinsonGE (1975) A treatise on limnology, volume 3: Limnological botany.New York: Wiley.
HutchinsonGE (1993) A treatise on limnology, volume 4: The zoobenthos.New York: Wiley.
O’SullivanPE and ReynoldsCS (eds) (2004) The lakes handbook, volume 1: Limnology and limnetic ecology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
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