Pond Littoral Ecosystems Structure and Functioning; Methods and Resu
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Volume 28
Pond Littoral Ecosystems Structure and Functioning Methods and Results of Quantitative Ecosystem Research in the Czechoslovakian IBP Wetland Project
Edited by D. Dykyjovâ and J. Kvet With 183 Figures
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1978
Dr. DAGMAR DYKYJOVA
Dr. lAN KVET Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany Department of Hydrobotany TFeboii, Dukelska 145/CSSR
ISBN 978-3-642-66840-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-66838-8
ISBN 978-3-642-66838-8 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Main entry under title: Pond littoral ecosystems. (Ecological studies; 28). Includes bibliographical references. 1. Pond ecology. 2. Pond ecology--Czechoslovakia. 3. International Biological Programme. 1. Dykyjova, Dagmar. II. Kvet, Jan, 1933-. III. Series. QH541.5.P63P66. 574.5'2632.77-19008. This work is subject to copyright. AII rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re·use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under §54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher.
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Preface The Czechoslovak IBP Wetlands project was focused on intense quantitative ecological investigations of shallow littoral ecosystems of typical Central European fishponds, i.e., small man-made water bodies managed century-long for fish production. It was initiated in 1965 as a part of the national contribution to the International Biological Programme (IBP) by a small group of Czech botanists inspired by the idea of voluntary international scientific cooperation in studies of "biological basis of productivity and human welfare." During the subsequent ten years of research work, new colleagues or groups of different specialists joined our team. The final result was a bulk of complex ecological studies from two geographically and ecologically differing regions. The research program followed the basic original scheme of quantitative assessment of biological productivity through an analysis of the structure and functioning of ecosystems, as it had been adopted by the ecologically (PT and PF) as well as the physiologically (PP) orientated sections of the IBP. Simultaneously, broad international cooperation has been evolved with colleagues and laboratories in numerous countries, especially in Poland, Romania, USSR, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, India, the USA and Venezuela. This international collab
