Freshwater

Author : Akwaeke Emezi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802165565

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Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Pdf

A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A New York Times Notable Book The astonishing debut novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and Pet, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters—now protective, now hedonistic—move into control. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author’s realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace.

Author : Roy E. Martin,Emily Paine Carter,George J. Flick, Jr.,Lynn M. Davis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1566768896

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Marine and Freshwater Products Handbook by Roy E. Martin,Emily Paine Carter,George J. Flick, Jr.,Lynn M. Davis Pdf

Comprehensive handbook of seafood information! This definitive reference is the most comprehensive handbook of information ever assembled on foods and other products from fresh and marine waters. Marine and Freshwater Products Handbook covers the acquisition, handling, biology, and the science and technology of the preservation and processing of fishery and marine products. The array of topics covered includes: aquaculture fisheries management, and harvesting o fish meal and fish oil o fish protein concentrates o seaweed products o products from shell o other industrial products o bioactive compounds o cookery o specialty products o surimi and mince o HACCP o modern processing methods o religious and cultural aspects of water products o marine toxins and seafood intolerances o contamination in shellfish growing areas o pathogens in fish and shellfish. Marketing, transportation and distribution, retailing, import and export, and a look to the future of the seafood industry are also addressed. Extensive coverage of species All major marine and freshwater finfish species are covered, as well as processing technologies: fresh fish, preserved fish, finfish processing, and other processed products. Crustaceans and other useful marine and freshwater species and their processing are also covered. These include: mollusk o clams o oysters o scallops o abalone o squid o shrimp o lobster o crawfish o crabs o eels o turtles o sea urchin o octopus o snails o alligator. The definitive seafood industry sourcebook Marine and Freshwater Products Handbook incorporates the advances in biotechnology and molecular biology, including potential drugs and medicinal products; the manufacture of chemicals from the sea; seafood safety, including toxin detection techniques and HACCP, and processing technologies. With contributions from more than 50 experts, helpful, data-filled tables and charts, numerous references and photos, this is the sourcebook for everyone involved in products from our waters. It will serve as the standard reference for the seafood industry for years to come.

Author : Kenneth Stewart,Douglas Watkinson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780887553745

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Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba by Kenneth Stewart,Douglas Watkinson Pdf

Manitoba's ninety-three species of fish give the province the third most diverse fish population in Canada. The provinceís variety of geological features, with its major lakes, rivers, tributaries, and watersheds, is due in large part to its history as the basin for Glacial Lake Agassiz. This, combined with its access to the waters of Hudson Bay and large American river systems, has provided habitat for a wide diversity of freshwater fish. Species from lampreys to goldeye, catfish to perch, bigmouth bass to slimy sculpin swim in waters from arctic rivers in the north to Red River tributaries and down to the Mississippi in the south.Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide. Each species is accurately depicted in detailed colour photographs and accompanying map, with descriptions of physical characteristics, spawning and feeding habits, distribution, habitat, ecological role, and economic importance. The guide also includes an extensive glossary, keys to identifying the families, species, and subspecies, and information on documentation and preservation of specimens. Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba is not only the definitive guide to these fishes of Manitoba, it is also accessible and reliable for a range of users from general fishers to professional fish biologists.

Author : Robert J. Naiman,John J. Magnuson,Diane M. McKnight,Jack A. Stanford
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910712

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The Freshwater Imperative by Robert J. Naiman,John J. Magnuson,Diane M. McKnight,Jack A. Stanford Pdf

This volume summarizes the two-year effort of a working group of leading aquatic scientists sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA, TVA, and NOAA to identify research opportunities and frontiers in freshwater sciences for this decade and beyond. The research agenda outlined focuses on issues of water availability, aquatic ecosystem integrity, and human health and safety. It is a consensus document that has been endorsed by all of the major professional organizations involved with freshwater issues.

Author : Jerry Pallotta
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780881069006

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The Freshwater Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta Pdf

Come take a swim with freshwater creatures from around the world! Meet a fish that has no eyes and one that has four of them. Get to know an eel that carries enough electricity to light up a light bulb and a glacier-dwelling worm with blood that works like antifreeze. Jerry Pallotta has done it again! The acclaimed alphabet-book author has joined forces with illustrator David Biedrzycki to create an exquisite and informative introduction to freshwater dwellers.

Author : James Fargo Balliett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317470151

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Freshwater by James Fargo Balliett Pdf

Freshwater is our planet’s most precious resource, and also the least conserved. Freshwater makes up only 3 percent of the total water on the planet, and yet the majority (1.9 percent) is held in a frozen state in glaciers, icebergs, and polar ice fields. This leaves approximately one-half of 1 percent of the total volume of water on the planet as freshwater available in liquid form. This book traces the complex history of the steady growth of humankind’s water consumption, which today reaches some 9.7 quadrillion gallons per year. Along with a larger population has come the need for more drinking water, larger farms requiring extensive irrigation, and more freshwater to support business and industry. At the same time, such developments have led to increased water pollution. Three detailed case studies are included. The first looks at massive water systems in locations such as New York City and the efforts required to protect and transport such resources. The second shows how growth has affected freshwater quality in the ecologically unique and geographically isolated Lake Baikal region of eastern Russia. The third examines the success story of the privatized freshwater system in Chile and consider how that country’s water sources are threatened by climate change.

Author : E. B. Gareth Jones,Kevin D Hyde,Ka-Lai Pang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110390148

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Freshwater Fungi by E. B. Gareth Jones,Kevin D Hyde,Ka-Lai Pang Pdf

The available literature on freshwater fungi is limited. Over the subsequent years a considerable volume of scientific papers have appeared scattered throughout numerous journals. There is therefore no recent synthesis of the subject and this is the objective of the proposed book. Freshwater habitats are rich in fungi with some 3,000 described species, most of papers focussing on their identification, substrata they grow on and world distribution. However, these fungi play an important role in the freshwater ecosystem, and are primarily involved in the breakdown of leaf litter contributing food for detritus feeders. Our book will bring together a wide range of acclaimed mycologists to review recent developments on the biology and ecology of freshwater fungi, particularly their molecular phylogeny, biodiversity, causative diseases of freshwater amphibians, fishes and invertebrate animals, decomposition of leaf litter, stream pollution and their potential role in bioremediation.

Author : Sincere Humphrey
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839473500

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Freshwater Microbiology by Sincere Humphrey Pdf

This book explores the diversity, interactions and activities of microbes within freshwater environments. These form an important part of the biosphere, which also includes oceans, terrestrial environments and the earth's atmosphere. Freshwater environments are considered to include all those sites where freshwater occurs as the main external medium, either in the liquid or frozen state. Water microorganisms are capable of flourishing in all water habitants, from several kilometers below the seafloor to the first millimeter of a shallow trench created by rainwater and into acidic lakes. Three major domains compose water microorganisms-Eukaryota, Archaea and Bacteria - as well as viruses. Their omnipresence impacts the entire biosphere as they are the main producers of energy and carbon flow to other organisms. Some of the microbes decompose organic matter and thus they recycle nutrients in complex manner involved in various geochemical cycles as the nitrogen, the phosphorus and the carbon cycle. Water microbiology is concerned with the microorganisms that live in water, or can be transported from one habitat to another by water. Water can support the growth of many types of microorganisms. This can be advantageous. For example, the chemical activities of certain strains of yeasts provide us with beer and bread. As well, the growth of some bacteria in contaminated water can help digest the poisons from the water. This book will be useful to researchers, teachers and students of microbiology, botany, zoology and agriculture.

Author : B. Streit,T. Städler,C.M. Lively
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034888806

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Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Animals by B. Streit,T. Städler,C.M. Lively Pdf

Evolutionary ecology includes aspects of community structure, trophic interactions, life-history tactics, and reproductive modes, analyzed from an evolutionary perspective. Freshwater environments often impose spatial structure on populations, e.g. within large lakes or among habitat patches, facilitating genetic and phenotypic divergence. Traditionally, freshwater systems have featured prominently in ecological research and population biology. This book brings together information on diverse freshwater taxa, with a mix of critical review, synthesis, and case studies. Using examples from bryozoans, rotifers, cladocerans, molluscs, teleosts and others, the authors cover current conceptual issues of evolutionary ecology in considerable depth. The book can serve as a source of critically evaluated ideas, detailed case studies, and open problems in the field of evolutionary ecology. It is recommended for students and researchers in ecology, limnology, population biology, and evolutionary biology.

Author : Jocelyne Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191079122

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Freshwater Ecology and Conservation by Jocelyne Hughes Pdf

This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the vast amount of literature for freshwater ecology and conservation that is currently dispersed in manuals, toolkits, journals, handbooks, 'grey' literature, and websites. Successful conservation outcomes are ultimately built on a sound ecological framework in which every species must be assessed and understood at the individual, community, catchment and landscape level of interaction. For example, freshwater ecologists need to understand hydrochemical storages and fluxes, the physical systems influencing freshwaters at the catchment and landscape scale, and the spatial and temporal processes that maintain species assemblages and their dynamics. A thorough understanding of all these varied processes, and the techniques for studying them, is essential for the effective conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems.

Author : Tadashi Kawai,Zen Faulkes,Gerhard Scholtz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466586406

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Freshwater Crayfish by Tadashi Kawai,Zen Faulkes,Gerhard Scholtz Pdf

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, and also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity, disease, and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by three editors in Japan, Europe, and the US, this book invites contributions from experts around the globe, covering the conservation status and biology of all endangered species, taxonomy, and distribution of crayfishes worldwide.

Author : P.A. Larkin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773593190

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Freshwater Pollution, Canadian Style by P.A. Larkin Pdf

Author : Tatiana Lobato-de Magalhães
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031527494

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World Atlas of Freshwater Macrophytes by Tatiana Lobato-de Magalhães Pdf

Author : Luis M. Botana
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781420007541

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Seafood and Freshwater Toxins by Luis M. Botana Pdf

The occurrence of marine and freshwater toxins is a rapidly evolving problem due to ever-changing circumstances. Expanding international commerce is forcing cargo ships into virgin territory, deforestation and pollution violate the natural ecological balance, and a changing climate holds unknown potential to alter current factors and trigger toxic

Author : P.G. Sly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400980099

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Sediment/Freshwater Interactions by P.G. Sly Pdf

Proceedings of the Second International Sediment/Freshwater Symposium held in Kingston, Ontario, June 15-18, 1981