Tropical Stream Ecology, 1st Edition, Editor: D Dudgeon, Publication Date: 12/27/2007, ISBN:9780120884490, Academic Press, Hardcover

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Product Details

Series: Aquatic Ecology

Hardcover: 370 pages

Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (Date: 12/27/2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0120884496

ISBN-13: 978-0120884490

Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.5 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

Key Features

* First synthetic account of the ecology of all types of tropical streams

* Covers all of the major tropical regions

* Detailed consideration of possible fundamental differences between tropical and temperate stream ecosystems

* Threats faced by tropical stream ecosystems and possible conservation actions

* Descriptions and synstheses life-histories and breeding patterns of major aquatic consumers (fishes, invertebrates)

Description

This book describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology. It covers the major physico-chemical features, important processes such as primary production and organic-matter transformation, as well as the main groups of consumers: invertebrates, fishes and other vertebrates. Information on concepts and paradigms developed in north-temperate latitudes and how they do not match the reality of ecosystems further south is expertly addressed. The pressing matter of conservation of tropical streams and their biodiversity is included in alomost every chapter, with a final chapter providing a synthesis on conservation issues. For the first time, Tropical Streams Ecology places an important emphasis on viewing research carried out in contributions from international literature.

Readership

Freshwater biologists, ecologists, limnologists, water-resource managers, and environmental protection

Table of Contents

Tropical Stream Ecology, 1st Edition

1. Physical and Chemical Features of Tropical Flowing Waters
William M. Lewis, Jr.

2. Primary Production in Tropical Streams and Rivers

Peter M. DaviesStuart E. Bunn

Stephen K. Hamilton

3. Organic-Matter Processing in Tropical Streams

Karl M. Wantzen

Catherine. M. Yule

Jude M. Mathooko

Catherine M. Pringle

4. Macroinvertebrates: Composition, Life Histories and Production

Dean Jacobsen

Claudia Cressa

Jude M. Mathooko

David Dudgeon

5. Fish Ecology in Tropical Streams

Kirk O. Winemiller

Angelo A. Agostinho

Érica Pellegrini Caramaschi

6. Aquatic, Semi-Aquatic and Riparian Vertebrates

Nic Pacini

David M. Harper

7. Riparian Wetlands of Tropical Streams

Karl M. Wantzen

Catherine. M. Yule

Klement Tockner

Wolfgang J. Junk

8. Tropical High-Altitude Streams 

Dean Jacobsen

9. Are Tropical Streams Ecologically Different from Temperate Streams?

Andrew J. Boulton

Luz Boyero

Alan P. Covich

Michael Dobson

Richard Pearson

10. Tropical Stream ConservationAlonso Ramírez

Catherine M. Pringle

Karl M. Wantzen

Properties of Polymers, 4th Edition, D.W. van Krevelen, Klaas te Nijenhuis, Published: February 2009, ISBN: 978-0-08-054819-7, Elsevier, Hardbound

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Overview

Properties of Polymers, 4th Edition
Their Correlation with Chemical Structure; their Numerical Estimation and Prediction from Additive Group Contributions

This authoritative, widely cited book has been used all over the world. The fourth edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while maintaining the core objectives of previous editions: to correlate properties with chemical structure and to describe methods that permit the estimation and prediction of numerical properties from chemical structure, i.e. nearly all properties of the solid, liquid, and dissolved states of polymers.

Product Details

Hardcover: 1030 pages

Publisher: Elsevier Science; 4 edition (February, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0080548199

ISBN-13: 978-0080548197

Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8 x 2 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.7 pound

Key Features

* extends coverage of critical topics such as electrical and magnetic properties, rheological properties of polymer melts, and environmental behavior and failure

* discusses liquid crystalline polymers across chapters 6, 15, and 16 for greater breadth and depth of coverage

* increases the number of supporting illustrations from approximately 250 (in the previous edition) to more than 400 to further aid in visual understanding

Description

This authoritative, widely cited book has been used all over the world. The fourth edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while maintaining the core objectives of previous editions: to correlate properties with chemical structure and to describe methods that permit the estimation and prediction of numerical properties from chemical structure, i.e. nearly all properties of the solid, liquid, and dissolved states of polymers.

Readership

Chemical engineers and polymer technologists; material scientists and material science engineers in the laboratory, in engineering departments and in development teams; graduate and PhD students; scientists active in the polymer field

Table of Contents

Part I. General Introduction: A bird's-eye view of polymer science and engineering. Polymer properties. Typology of polymers. Typology of properties. History.

Part II. Thermophysical properties of polymers. Volumetric properties. Calorimetric properties. Transition temperatures. Cohesive properties and solubility. Interfacial energy properties. Limiting viscosity number (intrinsic viscosity) and related properties of very dilute solutions. 

Part III. Properties of polymers in fields of force.Optical properties. Electrical properties. Magnetic properties. Mechanical properties of solid polymers. Acoustic properties.

Part IV. Transport properties of polymers.Rheological properties of polymer melts. Rheological properties of polymer solutions. Transport of thermal energy. Properties determining mass transfer in polymeric systems. Crystallization and recrystallization.

Part V. Properties determining the chemical stability and breakdown of polymers. Thermochemical properties. Thermal decomposition. Chemical degradation. Environmental failure.

Part VI. Polymer properties as an integral concept.Intrinsic properties in retrospect. Processing properties. Product properties (I): mechanical behaviour and failure. Product properties (II): environmental behaviour and failure. An illustrative example of end use properties: article properties of textile products.

Part VII. Comprehensive tables.International system of units (SI). Survey of conversion factors. Values of some fundamental constants. Physical constants of the most important solvents. Physical properties of the most important polymers. Published data on "high performance" polymers. Code symbols for the most important polymers. Trade names and generic names. Survey of group contributions in additive molar quantities. Symbol Index. Author Index. Subject Index.