Life in Water

1. Introduction; 2. Physio-chemical characteristics of water bodies; 3. How can we find out what water bodies contain?; 4. Particulate and dissoloved matter and its processing in water bodies; 5. Trophic status, food availability and feeding by aquatic animals; 6. Production, turnover and fisheries; 7. Engineering in water; 8. Water as a dense medium; 9. Locomotion, migration and dispersal of aquatic organisms; 10. Water as a potentially hostile environment; Glossary; References.