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Ponds, Pools and Puddles (Hardcover)
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Ponds, Pools and Puddles (Hardcover)
Series: Collins New Naturalist Library
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Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape – there are
at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK – and they
are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a
comprehensive and detailed account of these freshwater habitats.
The first chapter discusses what ponds, pools and puddles are, how
they differ from rivers and lakes, their origin – natural or
man-made, the different types of ponds and their abundance and
distribution in Britain. A second chapter looks at ponds as ancient
natural habitats that have existed for millennia on the earth’s
surface. Ancient pond communities, as preserved in inter- and
post-glacial sediments, are compared with modern pond communities.
This chapter also examines the physical and chemical environment of
ponds, covering aspects such as size, shape and depth, hydrology,
oxygen and temperature. Ponds, pools and puddles are important
wildlife habitats; they are as rich in species as rivers, and
support rare and uncommon taxa including about half of Britain’s
Red Data Book wetland plant and animal species. The authors give a
comprehensive survey of the variety of plant and animal life for
which ponds, pools and puddles are a habitat, with a chapter each
on plants, invertebrates, amphibians, and fish, birds and mammals.
The book discusses the importance of ponds to each of these groups
and the ways in which the organisms exploit ponds, describing their
habitats and major variations in life cycles. The pond ecosystem
and colonisation and succession are discussed in two further
chapters, before the final chapter, which is devoted to the subject
of conservation and how best to protect and manage ponds and pond
wildlife in Britain today. In spite of their evident importance,
ponds have been largely ignored by freshwater biologists during
this century. Ponds, Pools and Puddles makes an invaluable
contribution to raising awareness of these popular, yet frequently
underrated freshwater habitats, giving them the attention they
rightly deserve.
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