Dynamic Aquaria - building living ecosystems, 3rd edition

Walter H Adey and Karen Loveland
Academic Press March 2007

Hardback 528 pp ISBN 9780123706416 £45.00

Includes 16 page color insert with 57 color plates and 25% new photographs
Offers 300 figures and 75 tables
New chapter on Biogeography
Over 50% new research in various chapters
Significant updates in chapters include:
- The understanding of coral reef function especially the relationship between photosynthesis and calcification
- The use of living system models to solve problems of biogeography and the geographic dispersal and interaction of species populations
- The development of new techniques for global scale restoration of water and atmosphere
- The development of new techniques for closed system, sustainable aquaculture

In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. This book further offers an understanding developed in 25 years of living ecosystem modeling and discusses how this knowledge has produced methods of efficiently solving many environmental problems. Public education through this methodology is the additional key to the broader ecosystem understanding necessary to allow human society to pass through the next evolutionary bottleneck of our species. Living systems modeling as a wide spectrum educational tool can provide a primary vehicle for that essential step. This third editon covers the many technological and biological developments in the eight plus years since the second edition, providing updated technological advice and describing many new example aquarium environments.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Physical Environment

The Envelope: Physical Parameters and Energy State
Substrate: The Active Role of Rock, Mud, and Sand
Water Composition: Management of Salinity, Hardness, and Evaporation
The Input of Solar Energy: Lighting Requirements
The Input of Organic Energy: Particulates and Feeding

Part II : Biochemical Environment

Metabolism: Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Biological Loading
Organisms and Gas Exchange: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, pH, and Alkalinity
The Primary Nutrients - Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Silica: Limitation and Eutrophication
Biomineralization and Calcification: A Key to Biosphere and Ecosystem Function
Control of the Biochemical Environment: Filters, Bacteria, and the Algal Turf Scrubber

Part III: Biological Structure

Community Structure: Biodiversity in Model Ecosystems
Trophic Structure: Ecosystems and the Dynamics of Food Chains
Primary Producers: Plants That Grow on the Bottom
Herbivores: Predators of Plants and Omnivores, Predators of Plants and Animals
Carnivores: Predators of Animals
Plankton and Planktivores: Floating Plants and Animals and Their Predators
Detritus and Detritivores: The Dynamics of Muddy Bottoms
Symbionts and Other Feeders

Part IV: Ecological Systems in Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Aquaria

Models of Coral Reef Ecosystems
A Subarctic/Boreal Microcosm: Test of a Biogeographic Model
Estuaries: Ecosystem Modeling and Restoration: Where Fresh and Salt Waters Interact
Freshwater Ecosystem Models

Part V: The Environment and Ecological Engineering

Organisms and Natural Products: Commercial Ecosystem Culture
Large Scale Water Quality Management with Solar Energy Capture

Part VI: Summary

Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Macrocosms: Building and Restoring Ecosystems: A Synthesis

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