Preface
1: Introduction
2: The physical environment
3: Influential environmental factors
4: The biota
5: Population dynamics
6: Community dynamics
7: Other temporary water habitats
8: Applied aspects of temporary waters
9: Habitats for vectors of disease
10: Importance and stewardship of temporary waters
References
Index
D. Dudley Williams is Professor of Zoology and Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada, and he also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
A pioneering authority in the field, he has collated and synthesized a growing body of literature on the biology of temporary waters that represent a fascinating habitat for ecological and limnological research, incorporating a strong conservation component. Dudley Williams brilliantly compresses a huge, complex, perhaps unwieldy and occasionally unclear body of data into a surprisingly accessible account. The book is outstandingly successful and will soon be hailed as a most accessible text for graduate students and researchers. Current Engineering Practice "In this well-produced and carefully illustrated work, Williams consistently outlines the many gaps in our knowledge that will likely provide starting points for many theses richly detailed thoroughly referenced encyclopaedic in its scope suitable for practicing biologists, postgraduate students, and upper-level undergraduates." J.S. Richardson, in The Quarterly Review of Biology This well illustrated and fascinating book documents the life found in every possible sort of temporary water the authors enthusiasm for these is infectious and he will surely re-kindle interest in these habitats, for they illustrate many ecological principles this book draws together what is generally a very dispersed literature and provides a coherent account of this fascinating topic. M. Young, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society The book is encyclopedic in its scope ... In this well-produced and carefully illustrated work, Williams consistently outlines the many gaps in our knowledge that will likely provide starting points for many theses. This volume is appropriately priced and will be suitable for practising biologists, postgraduate students, and upper-level undergraduates. John S Richardson, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol 82, June 2007
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