Dynamic Aquaria, Third Edition: Building Living Ecosystems

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In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. This book further offers an understanding developed in 25 years of living ecosystem modeling and discusses how this knowledge has produced methods of efficiently solving many environmental problems. Public education through this methodology is the additional key to the broader ecosystem understanding necessary to allow human society to pass through the next evolutionary bottleneck of our species. Living systems modeling as a wide spectrum educational tool can provide a primary vehicle for that essential step. This third editon covers the many technological and biological developments in the eight plus years since the second edition, providing updated technological advice and describing many new example aquarium environments. * Includes 16 page color insert with 57 color plates and 25% new photographs * Offers 300 figures and 75 tables * New chapter on Biogeography * Over 50% new research in various chapters * Significant updates in chapters include: - The understanding of coral reef function especially the relationship between photosynthesis and calcification - The use of living system models to solve problems of biogeography and the geographic dispersal and interaction of species populations - The development of new techniques for global scale restoration of water and atmosphere - The development of new techniques for closed system, sustainable aquaculture

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DYNAMIC AQUARIA This page intentionally left blank DYNAMIC AQUARIA BUILDING AND RESTORING LIVING ECOSYSTEMS Third Edition Walter H. Adey Karen Loveland National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA First edition 1991 Second edition 1998 Third edition 2007 Copyright © 2007 Walter H. Adey and Karen Loveland. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved The right of Walter H. Adey and Karen Loveland to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science and Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK; phone: (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax: (+44) (0) 1865 853333; e-mail: [email protected] You may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com), by selecting “Customer Support” and then “Obtaining Permissions” British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370641-6 ISBN-10: 0-12-370641-6 For information on all Academic Press publications visit our web site at http://books.elsevier.com Typeset in 10/12pt Palatino by Charon Tec Ltd (A Macmillan Company), Chennai, India www.charontec.com Printed and bound in the USA 07 08 09 10