Central European stream ecosystems the long term study of the Breitenbach / edited by Rüdiger Wagner, Jürgen Marxsen, Peter Zwick and Eileen J. Cox.

• Introduction / Peter Zwick -- The Breitenbach and Its Catchment / Jürgen Marxsen, Rüdiger Wagner, Hans-Heinrich Schmidt -- Environmental Characteristics / Hans-Heinrich Schmidt -- Detrital Energy Sources / Jürgen Marxsen, Rüdiger Wagner -- Primary Producers / Eileen J Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, Thomas G Horvath -- Bacteria and Fungi / Jürgen Marxsen -- The Fauna of the Breitenbach / Peter Zwick, Georg Becker, Rüdiger Wagner, Joachim Reidelbach, Heino Christl -- Ecosystem Breitenbach / Rüdiger Wagner, Jürgen Marxsen, Hans-heinrich Schmidt, Michael Obach, Peter Zwick -- Summary / Georg Becker, Eileen J Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, Hans-Heinrich Schmidt, Rüdiger Wagner, Peter Zwick.

• Pollution of freshwater resources becomes an issue in virtually every country undergoing an industrialization process. While the main emphasis has been for many years on lakes due to their limited capacity of self-renewal, streams and rivers attract increasing attention due to their importance for agriculture, fisheries, drinking water reserves and as feeder of freshwater lakes and reservoirs. There are many factors influencing the ecology of streams, only some of them relating to direct anthropogenic influences and it is important to have reliable long term data on natural occurring variations in order to better estimate the `default’ status of a stream and to judge the influence of modern anthropogenic influences. The Breitenbach is one of the best-studied streams on earth, as the nearby Max-Planck Outstation in Schlitz was founded in 1949 and scientists there have been collecting data ever since.

Subject headings

Stream ecology  -- Europe, Central. (LCSH)

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Electronic books.  (local)

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