Table of Contents

One: The Historical Background.- 1. The Lake Stechlin area, past and present, and the Lake Stechlin research project.- Two: The Hydrographical, Hydrometeorological and Chemical Background.- 2. The lakes of the Lake Stechlin area: aspects of their morphometry.- 3. The hydrometeorology of the Lake Stechlin area.- 4. The chemical environment.- Three: The Biological Background.- 5. The plant communities.- 6. The bacteria.- 7. The invertebrate communities.- 8. The vertebrate communities.- 9. Flora and fauna of the Lake Stechlin area. Short comments upon the lists of taxa (appendix).- Four: The Metabolism of The Lake Stechlin Area.- 10. The primary production.- 11. The secondary production.- 12. Microbial activities at Lake Stechlin.- 13. Sediments and sedimentation.- 14. Fallen leaves in Lake Stechlin.- 15. The ecosystem Lake Stechlin: the life of the lake.- 16. The pelagic zone of Lake Stechlin: an approach to a theoretical model.- 17. Lake Stechlin area and society.- Appendix Taxa observed in the Lake Stechlin area.- Taxonomic index.

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`It is both a showcase for East German limnology and a good contribution to comparative limnology.'
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 61 (1986)
`... the editor and contributors should be congratulated for what is overall a fascinating, detailed and informative contribution to the limnological literature. ... Between these two covers is a wealth of information about an interesting temperate oligotrophic lake and the environmental impacts of thermal effluents discharged from a nuclear power plant.'
Journal of the Limnological Society of S.A., 11:2 (1986)