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Conservation and monitoring of pond biodiversity : introduction

Conservation and monitoring of pond biodiversity : introduction ´ ´ ´ BEAT OERTLIa,*, JEREMY BIGGSb, REGIS CEREGHINOc, PATRICK GRILLASd, PIERRE JOLYe and JEAN-BERNARD LACHAVANNEf University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, EIL, Jussy-Geneva, Switzerland Pond Conservation: Freshwater Policy and Research Division, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxon, U.K. c University Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Laboratoire d ’Ecologie des Hydrosyste`mes UMR 5177, Toulouse, France d Station Biologique Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France e University of Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5023, Villeurbanne, France f Laboratory of Ecology and Aquatic Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland PONDS: WHAT? WHY? HOW MUCH? What is a pond? A small lake, a big pool, a water body in a wetland? Does this specific name ‘pond’ describe a particular type of water body? The answer is undoubtedly affirmative. As long ago as the beginning of the last century, Forel (1904) noted that ponds are ecologically different from larger water bodies, describing them as lakes where the deep aphotic zone was missing. Since Forel’s early comments many other definitions of what constitutes a pond have been proposed, linked to various aspects of their size, depth, type of water supply, use, geographical location, formation, and water quality (see, for example, the review of Jammes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1052-7613
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1099-0755
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10.1002/aqc.752
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´ ´ ´ BEAT OERTLIa,*, JEREMY BIGGSb, REGIS CEREGHINOc, PATRICK GRILLASd, PIERRE JOLYe and JEAN-BERNARD LACHAVANNEf University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, EIL, Jussy-Geneva, Switzerland Pond Conservation: Freshwater Policy and Research Division, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxon, U.K. c University Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Laboratoire d ’Ecologie des Hydrosyste`mes UMR 5177, Toulouse, France d Station Biologique Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France e University of Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5023, Villeurbanne, France f Laboratory of Ecology and Aquatic Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland PONDS: WHAT? WHY? HOW MUCH? What is a pond? A small lake, a big pool, a water body in a wetland? Does this specific name ‘pond’ describe a particular type of water body? The answer is undoubtedly affirmative. As long ago as the beginning of the last century, Forel (1904) noted that ponds are ecologically different from larger water bodies, describing them as lakes where the deep aphotic zone was missing. Since Forel’s early comments many other definitions of what constitutes a pond have been proposed, linked to various aspects of their size, depth, type of water supply, use, geographical location, formation, and water quality (see, for example, the review of Jammes

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley

Published: Nov 1, 2005

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