Inland Waters of New Zealand. Ed. A. B. Viner = DSIR Bulletin 241.—494 pp., 28 plates, 72 tabs. Wellington: Science Information Publishing Centre 1987. ISBN 0-477-06799-9. US $ 68.00: NZ $ 120.00
✍ Scribed by W. Horn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
The book is based npon the out>hors' cxperirnce with 1;tlte reswrch in dif'frrcnt wntincnts. S o comparable text is known to the referee which prescnts the fascinating dix-crsitg of lake t'(*o m i it world-wide scale so illustrative. The ;ruthors point, out. thirt, this h o k is \vritt.cll for ;L yery broad redership and "not for litnnologists". But it presents ii winiliarising tlrscription of tnting p:irticulnr Ittkes which in this form cannot br fonnd in other textbooks. Aniorig tlie lukes which are de;dt with are Tang~nyika, 81;%la\rri, Saiv;isha, S n k i i r n , Baiknl, Tit,icitm, C!l~nd, the I)e;td Sell, ( h a t . Salt Jake. Rnlaton itnd J m h Xess. The piiblicatiori gives it good overriew on snhjects of gencriil interest, like "Polar and nioimtain lakes". "The deepest, lakes". "Shnllu\r hkcs". "Stilinp iind soda lakes", "lllim-iniide lakes" iiiicl "The iise and iibuse of lakes". The ecology of ii nunibcr of particuhrly remarkable species or genera (Hnlobacler lmlobium, 1' us, Oreochromis (5";lqp;n) niloticus, ffippopotumus, and others) likewise is prrsmterl. Referent re oinitted from the text, mid information on further reading is given on one page. Tho nuntber of errors obvionsly is sniall. There i s an irnnecessary dccimnl in t)hc table on page 40. Sonie c;~ptioiis to the plittes between p g c s 138 and 139 u.ould probably not Iteve been c.onfitscd in cnse the plates h d bccm Itibelled wit,li n u m -