Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- The importance of inland waters -- Water as a substance -- Rivers and lakes - their distribution, origins, and forms -- Hydrological systems -- Light in inland waters -- Fate of heat -- Water movements -- Structure and productivity of aquatic ecosystems -- Water as a chemical enviroment -- Oxygen -- Salinity and ionic composition of inland -- The inorganic carbon complex -- The nitrogen cycle -- Ecology of algae and cyanobacteri (phytoplankton) -- Zooplankton communities: diversity in time and space -- Ecology and functioning of zooplankton communities -- Benthic animals -- Fish -- Pelagic bacteria, archaea, and viruses -- Freshwater plants -- Bentic algae and cyanobacteria of the littoral zone -- Shallow lakes and ponds -- Sediments and microbiomes -- Organic carbon cycling and ecosystem -- Wetlands -- Paleolimnology: approaches and applications -- Inland waters: the future of limnology is interdisciplinary, collaborative, incluse, and applications.