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Reviews REVIEWS J. D. ALLEN, 1995. Stream ecology. Structure and function of running waters: xii, 1-388. (Chapman & Hall, London). Paperback. ISBN 0-412-29430-3. Price £ 24.99 (approx. US$ 38.00). This book, justified by the author as covering the period of advances in stream ecology since H. B. N. Hynes' classic "The ecology of running waters" (1970) masterfully surveyed the field, fills, clearly written and for a reasonable price, the gap. New paradigms (the river continuum concept; nutrient spiralling) arose and progress in the documentation of species interaction (predation, competition), hydrology, geomorphology and interactions between physical and biological factors became better undcrstood. To bring structure and function in a unifying framework is a hard but challenging aim. In the increasingly vast mass of scientists motivated to write a book, I welcome any ecological contribution in which the author keeps that combination in mind. The content is bodied by 14 chapters, including channels and flow, streamwater chemistry, physical factors of importance to the biota, autotrophs, heterotrophic energy sources, trophic relationships, predation and its consequences, herbivory, competitive interactions, drift, lotic communities, organic matter in lotic ecosystems, nutrient dynamics, modification of running waters by humankind. I select, maybe somewhat biassed, some conclusions. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

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Crustaceana , Volume 68 (5): 661 – Jan 1, 1995

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Brill
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0011-216x
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1568-5403
DOI
10.1163/156854095X00944
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REVIEWS J. D. ALLEN, 1995. Stream ecology. Structure and function of running waters: xii, 1-388. (Chapman & Hall, London). Paperback. ISBN 0-412-29430-3. Price £ 24.99 (approx. US$ 38.00). This book, justified by the author as covering the period of advances in stream ecology since H. B. N. Hynes' classic "The ecology of running waters" (1970) masterfully surveyed the field, fills, clearly written and for a reasonable price, the gap. New paradigms (the river continuum concept; nutrient spiralling) arose and progress in the documentation of species interaction (predation, competition), hydrology, geomorphology and interactions between physical and biological factors became better undcrstood. To bring structure and function in a unifying framework is a hard but challenging aim. In the increasingly vast mass of scientists motivated to write a book, I welcome any ecological contribution in which the author keeps that combination in mind. The content is bodied by 14 chapters, including channels and flow, streamwater chemistry, physical factors of importance to the biota, autotrophs, heterotrophic energy sources, trophic relationships, predation and its consequences, herbivory, competitive interactions, drift, lotic communities, organic matter in lotic ecosystems, nutrient dynamics, modification of running waters by humankind. I select, maybe somewhat biassed, some conclusions. The

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