Birds

BELTZER, H. Y M. QUIROGA

The Middle Paraná River - Limnology of a Subtropical Wetland

Springer.

Lugar: Berlin Heidelberg New York; Año: 2007; p. 363 - 375

This is an important and fascinating glimpse into one of the world’s most undisturbed ecosystems. The Middle Paraná river in South America is one of the largest in the world, and is incredibly rich in both fauna and flora. This book, with well over a hundred illustrations, covers the lot. All the key aspects of the Middle Paraná’s fluvial limnology and ecology are fully explored. What you’ll find here is the knowledge base that has been accrued over forty years of dedicated research by scientists at the Instituto Nacional de Limnología in Argentina. This internationally renowned institution is almost exclusively devoted to the exploration of the Middle Paraná, the most important 600-km-long reach of the river. This brilliant book covers all the key aspects of the Paraná’s fluvial limnology and ecology, arranged in discrete and easily navigable sections. First, the physical and chemical environment is explained, then the river’s plant life, followed by its invertebrate life, and finally the vertebrates that inhabit the river