EUTROPHICATION OF LAKES IN CHINA- A Gift To The 4th
International Conference on
the Conservation and Management of Lakes, "Hangzhou '90", edited by J. Xiangcan, L.
Hongliang, T. Qingying, Z. Zongshe and Z. Xuan. 1990. 652 pp. (In English.)
In two parts, this tome is 1) "a comprehensive introduction to the lakes' environmental
characteristics" and 2) a review and compilation of dozens of eutrophication studies by many
Chinese scientists. Part One includes information on all conceivable characteristics from sediment
granularity to the effects of tourists to the distributions of indicator species. Part Two (the
remaining 500 pages) presents the trophic states of five regions of China, as well as separate
reviews of urban lakes and reservoirs.
There are no indexes or appendixes.
PONDWEEDS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND - B.S.B.I.
Handbook No. 8, by C.D.
Preston. 1995. 352 pp.
The second part of the book presents two keys to 50 species (including a couple of
Ruppias
and Groenlandia densa). Each species is treated by descriptions, maps and excellent
line
drawings.
RESERVOIR FISHERIES OF INDIA, by V.V. Sugunan.
1995. 423 pp. (In English.)
The book begins with a national perspective on inland fisheries in India, as well as maps and
charts of reservoir distribution, soils, and climate. The remaining 13 chapters present the facts and
figures from each state, including stocking methods and rates, yields, and water chemistry.
DICTIONARY OF PLANT NAMES, In Latin, German,
English and French, by H. Nikolov.
1996. 926 pp. ISBN 3-443-50019-6
ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF TIDAL MARSHES - A Model
from the Gulf of Mexico,
edited by C.L. Coultas and Y.-P. Hsieh. 1997. 352 pp. ISBN 1-57444-026-8
Included are 12 review chapters on various aspects of intertidal marshes, such as functions,
geology, soils, vegetation, primary productivity and animals. The chapter on legal protection was
written by lawyers, and the one on management was written by specialists of the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection.
This book also includes chapters on how "to value" wetlands and the things that live in them.
Chapter 8, written by Professors H.T. Odum and D.A. Hornbeck, is a tutorial on how to use
Odum's highly-complex "EMERGY measure" (named in 1983) to "estimate the contributions of
marsh production and storage to real wealth"; that is to say, to calculate the monetary value of
marshes. Using EMERGY, Odum and Hornbeck calculate that marshes around Cedar Key,
Florida, contribute to the "potential for growth" of the town to the tune of $55.3 million (1990 $).
Therefore, the "potential public value that depends on marshes is $5,839/ha/year (1990 $)."
Appendixes that list the terrestrial vertebrates and aquatic insects of Florida's Gulf coast tidal
marshes complete this compendium.
WILDLIFE COMMUNITY HABITAT EVALUATION: A MODEL
FOR DECIDUOUS
PALUSTRINE FORESTED WETLANDS IN MARYLAND - Final Report, by R.L.
Schroeder.
1996. 42 pp.
AQUATIC AND WETLAND PLANTS OF SOUTH
CAROLINA, by C.A. Aulbach-Smith and
S.J. de Kozlowski. Second Edition. 1996. 128 pp.
ATLAS OF GRACILARIA SPORE CULTURE, by E.P.
Glenn, D.W. Moore, C.Y. Machado,
K.M. Fitzsimmons and S.E. Menke. 1996. 33 pp.
In many large, very good black-and-white photographs, the Gracilaria life cycle
and its
aquaculture are depicted. Chapters also explain how to collect data and keep records, and
presents the "Moloka'i experience" in Hawaii, including listing installation and operating costs,
with depreciation schedule and 5-year-cash-flow estimates.
FLORIDA FRESHWATER PLANTS - A Handbook of Common
Aquatic Plants in Florida
Lakes, by M.V. Hoyer, D.E. Canfield, C.A. Horsburgh, and K.P. Brown. 1996. 264 pp.
The book presents color photographs, descriptions, Florida distribution and biology of each
plant. It also includes tables of data and succinct interpretations which describe the ranges of
water chemistry variables for the individual species. These data were taken from 15 years of
research conducted on Florida lakes. In addition, a list of scientific references selected from the
Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System (APIRS) database refers users to other sources of
published information for each species.
Also included in this fact-filled volume are statistical tables showing plants sorted for water
chemistry variables including pH, alkalinity, conductance, color, phosphorus, nitrogen,
chlorophyll a, Secchi depth, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulfate, chloride, iron and
silicon.
AQUATIC AND WETLAND PLANTS OF INDIA, by C.D.K.
Cook. 1996. 385 pp. ISBN
0-19-854821-4
The identification keys for the 660 species are based on easily seen vegetative characteristics,
so that taxa may
appear several times in the key. Thus, users may depend on different characteristics and follow
different ("easier") paths in the key to identify a plant in question. Each species is described, its
distribution in India is noted, and an "ecological diagnosis" is presented. Only Latin names are
used in this Flora.
All species are illustrated by line drawings, but these "are not meant to be plant portraits and are
often restricted to diagnostic features."
WETLAND PLANTS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON
by B.J. Guard. 1995. 239 pp. ISBN
1-55105-060-9
The color photographs and line drawings of the plants are generally very good. Each plant is
described as to growth habit, leaves, flowers, fruits, habitat, natural history, similar species and
special notes of interest.
WATER GARDENING --WATER LILIES AND LOTUSES,
by P.D. Slocum, and P. Robinson,
with F. Perry. 1996. 434 pp. ISBN 0-88192-335-4
Part Two is the "Encyclopedia of Water Lilies and and Lotuses", in which all species and
major cultivars of water lilies and lotuses are described, including both day- and night-blooming
tropicals. Here are found most of the 445 laser-sharp color photographs of flowers, leaves and
roots.
Appendices include hardiness zone maps, a listing of commercial water lily sources, a glossary
and a recommended reading list.
(Order from Prof. Jin Xiangcan, Water Environmental Institue of the Chinese Research Academy
of Environmental Sciences, Beiyuan, Beijing, 100012, CHINA. US$150.00.)
Ecologists and limnologists of the Chinese Academy of Science have compiled a very large
amount of research, graphs and maps about the status of the highly diverse lakes (and reservoirs)
of China in a well-produced, very well-written book. There are no other such resources about the
lakes of China in the APIRS library.
(Order from the Botanical Society of the British Isles, Publications, Green Acre, Wood Lane,
Oundle, Peterborough PE8 5TP, GREAT BRITAIN. (Tel. 01832 273388))
This book is "intended as an identification guide rather than a taxonomic monograph" for those
who are "reasonably familiar" with botany. The first third is an introduction to the biology of
Potamogeton species in the British Isles, and includes chapters on prehistory,
nomenclature,
classification, evolution, hybridisation, structure, life history, habitats, distribution, and collection
and preservation.
(Order from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Publications
Division, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, ITALY. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper
No. 345.)
The per capita availability of fish in India is 3.2 kg while the world average
is 12.1 kg. To
increase inland fish production will require using Indian reservoirs, about which documentation is
"grossly inadequate." This research literature review will provide "a baseline" to "assess the
potential for culture-based fisheries enhancement of reservoirs in the region."
(Order from J. Cramer, Gebruder Borntraeger, Johannesstr. 3A, D-70176 Stuttgart, GERMANY.
Tel: 0711/625001. US$128.00.)
This books lists 14,500 generic names and as many species and 1,600
synonyms, for about 600
families of plants, bacteria included.
(Order from St Lucie Press, 100 E Linton Blvd., Suite 403B, Delray Beach, FL 33483.
(407/274-9906.) US$59.95 plus S/H.)
This book introduces the reader to the highly productive intertidal salt
marshes of Florida's
Gulf of Mexico coast. Florida has more intertidal wetlands than Georgia and the Carolinas
combined. It is illustrated with charts, graphs and ok-quality black-and-white photographs.
(Order from National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA
22161. Technical Report WRP-DE-14. Final Report from the US National Biological Service to
the US Army Corps of Engineers.)
This publication is a description of and tutorial for the use of the "Habitat
Model", a
mathematical procedure that "predicts [species] richness from an evaluation of habitat and spatial
variables, with the highest levels of richness assumed to be found in mature, unfragmented
forested wetland tracts."
(Order from K. Horan, SCDNR, Water Resources Division, 1201 Main Street, Suite 1100,
Columbia, SC 29201, (803/737-0800.) $15.00.)
This expanded version of the 1990 edition includes treatments for more
than 120 species. It is
a well-made book profusely illustrated with exceptional (though smallish) color photographs and
line drawings. This manual does not include a key to the species, though the book is divided into
sections: submersed; floating; shoreline and wetland; grasses, sedges and rushes; and algae.
(Order from Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Arizona, 2601 E Airport DR,
Tucson, AZ 85706 (520/741-1990.)
This publication resembles a ready-made "business plan" for starting the
business of seaweed
aquaculture. The spiral-bound manual explains how to prepare and operate a spore culture
facility, in which Gracilaria (a red seaweed) is grown and harvested.
Gracilaria is consumed
around the world where it is the raw material for gel agar and other foodstuffs. Its increasing
demand is not being met by the industry's depleting natural sources in the seas of Asia and South
America; aquacultural sources must be expanded.
(Order from University of Florida, IFAS Publications, PO Box 110011, Gainesville, FL
32611-0011. (352/392-1764.) US$35.00 plus S/H.)
The objective of this uniquely informative handbook is to examine the
relation of water
chemistry to the presence and distribution of 103 common aquatic plants in 322 Florida lakes.
(Order from Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. $165.00 plus
S/H.)
This "Flora", Prof. Cook's "last fling before going into retirement", is a
much-needed record of
the diversity of aquatic and wetland plants in the subcontinent, as well as a much-needed
identification manual that was written to be used by students and others having little botanical
training.
(Order from Lone Pine Publishing, 206, 10426-81 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6E
1X5, 800/661-9017. $19.95 plus S/H.)
This highly illustrated and colorful wetland manual is meant for botanists,
environmentalists,
managers and "all who appreciate, enjoy, study, protect and manage the wetlands" of the Pacific
Northwest. It details 155 (mainly flowering) plants, but treats about 330 species in various ways,
such as being described as "look-alike" species. It includes native and exotic species. The author
uses five identification keys: "pondweeds and others", grasses, rushes, sedges, and willows (Salix
spp.). In addition to the keys, the plants are arranged in the book according to general habitats,
including "submerged and floating, marshy shore, prairie wetland, shrub swamp and wooded
wetland" communities.
(Order from Timber Press, Inc., 133 SW Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland, OR 97204-3527,
(800/327-5680.) $59.95 plus S/H.)
Written by two of the world's leading water-gardening experts, this very
complete book
includes two main parts. Part one includes all one needs to know to design, construct and use
pools, bogs, waterfalls and streams in the garden landscape. Choosing, planting and maintaining
floating, submersed, marginal, and bog plants as well as moisture-loving trees and shrubs, is
explained. The roles of fish, frogs, insects and other animals are also described, including
particular detail regarding the lives of dragonflies.
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