Rates of growth and the multiple factors affecting them are of primary concern to those involved with the production of food, both plant and animal, for human populations. Knowledge of critical factors influencing growth is of use in farming animals…

Numerous attempts have been made to classify the various types of lentic environments. None of the systems of classifying lakes, whether based on dissolved oxygen, thermal conditions, chironomid larvae or numerous other criteria, has been wholly successful, nor are they…