Although limnology is a young discipline, it has, over the past century, experienced marked growth. Its early descriptive period was a long one, given the enormous diversity of biota and environments in freshwater ecosystems.
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Limnology
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32 translations across 25 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- азёразнаўства noun (science of lakes)
- лімналогія noun (science of lakes)
Catalan
1 entries- limnologia noun (science of lakes)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 湖沼學 /湖沼学 noun (science of lakes)
Czech
1 entries- limnologie noun (science of lakes)
Estonian
1 entries- järveteadus noun (science of lakes)
Finnish
1 entries- järvitiede noun (science of lakes)
French
1 entries- limnologie noun (science of lakes)
Galician
1 entries- limnoloxía noun (science of lakes)
German
3 entries- Gewässerökologie noun (science of lakes)
- Limnologie noun (science of lakes)
- Seenkunde noun (science of lakes)
Hindi
1 entries- सरोवरविज्ञान noun (science of lakes)
Hungarian
1 entries- belvíztan noun (science of lakes)
Icelandic
1 entries- vatnalíffræði noun (science of lakes)
Irish
1 entries- linneolaíocht noun (science of lakes)
Japanese
2 entries- 湖沼学 noun (science of lakes)
- 陸水学 noun (science of lakes)
Kazakh
1 entries- көлтану noun (science of lakes)
Korean
1 entries- 육수학 noun (science of lakes)
Lithuanian
2 entries- ežerótyra noun (science of lakes)
- limnològija noun (science of lakes)
Polish
1 entries- limnologia noun (science of lakes)
Portuguese
1 entries- limnologia noun (science of lakes)
Russian
2 entries- лимноло́гия noun (science of lakes)
- озероведение noun (science of lakes)
Sinhalese
2 entries- තඩාග විද්යාව noun (science of lakes)
- සාරස විද්යාව noun (science of lakes)
Spanish
1 entries- limnología noun (science of lakes)
Swedish
1 entries- limnologi noun (science of lakes)
Thai
1 entries- ชลธารวิทยา noun (science of lakes)
Uzbek
1 entries- koʻlshunoslik noun (science of lakes)
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The exercises in this book were set forth initially because of our frustrations in teaching such a complex, multifaceted discipline as limnology.
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Reservoir limnology and water quality management are associated with functions such as flood control, hydropower generation, irrigation, and fishery.
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