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Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e

8. Water

Water in terrestrial ecosystems

Case study 8a - Water as a key abiotic factor in terrestrial ecosystems

  1. Section 7.1 - the water cycle and water resource issues including abstraction and salinisation

  2. Section 8.1 - water in landscape ecology and catchment areas defining elements of a landscape

  3. Section 8.2 - water availability in different biomes

  4. Section 6.2 - plant responses to drought including the water use efficiencies of crops

  5. Section 5.1 - the summer drought as a defining feature of mediterranean ecosystems


Human influences on water resources

Case study 8b - Water resources and their sustainable/unsustainable use

  1. Section 9.5 - water-use and sustainability

  2. Section 6.5 - water use in agriculture including water requirements of crops, water over-use and salinisation

  3. Section 8.1 - the demise of the Aral Sea

  4. Box 7.2 - depletion of water tables by agricultural and tourist developments

  5. Section 7.2 - pollution of water nutrients - eutrophication of freshwater systems