Aquatic Ecosystems: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter

Review
"This book is a must have for researchers and graduate students who wish to be more familiar with DOM cycling." (E.F. Benfield, Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, September 2004)

"...is well structured, easy to understand...highly recommended to anyone interested in DOM and suggest it as a valuable selection..."-JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (July 2003)

"...this book is ideal for researchers and upper level students (MSc/PhD) who wish to be more familiar with the freshwater 'side' of DOM cycling."-EGU NEWSLETTER (Winter 2003)


Review
"...is well structured, easy to understand...highly recommended to anyone interested in DOM and suggest it as a valuable selection..."-JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (July 2003)

"...this book is ideal for researchers and upper level students (MSc/PhD) who wish to be more familiar with the freshwater 'side' of DOM cycling."-EGU NEWSLETTER (Winter 2003)


Book Description
Aquatic Ecosystems explains the interplay between various movements of matter and energy through ecosystems mediated by Dissolved Organic Matter. This book provides information on how much DOM there is in a particular aquatic ecosystem and where it originates. It explains whether the DOM composition varies from time to time and place to place. It also details how DOM becomes incorporated into microbial food webs, and gives a better, clarifying, understanding to its significance of DOM.

Dissolved Organic Matter (called DOM) is incredibly important in all aquatic ecosystems. Although it might seem that logs and leaves are more important, in fact the DOM is more crucial because the DOM is in a form that is available for use by all the organisms living in the the water. Furthermore, DOM influences complex food webs by mediating the availability of aquatic nutrients, metals, salts and minerals. DOM also affects water clarity, which of course has alters the way animals and plants live and feed in the water.
There are many ways to study DOM and this book focuses on several central questions. How much DOM is there in a particular aquatic ecosytem? Where does it come from? Does the composition of the DOM vary from time to time and place to palce? How does DOM become incorporated into microbial food webs, which are the basis of plant, invertebrate and vertebrate food webs? How can the answers to these and other questions about DOM be considered together so that a better understanding of the significance of DOM can emerge?


Book Info
Explains the interplay between various movements of matter and energy through ecosystems mediated by dissolved organic matter. Provides information on how much DOM there is in a particular ecosystem and where it originates. Explains whether the DOM composition varies from time to time and place to place.


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The health and proper functioning of aquatic ecosystems depends in part on the abundance and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM). The fluxes and pulses of organic matter influences practically every aspect of stream ecology, biogeochemistry, and productivity. Aquatic Ecosystems addresses crucial questions emerging from the latest research on DOM. Overviews of the source, supply and variability of DOM, surveys of the processes that mediate inputs to microbial food webs, and syntheses consolidating research findings provide a comprehensive review of what is known of DOM in freshwater. This book will be important to anyone interested in understanding the fundamental factors associated with DOM that control aquatic ecosystems.


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