Part of the charm of science is its unpredictability R. MacArthur Limnology has enjoyed a long tradition of progress based on thoughtful interpretation of empirical findings. New understanding has grown in part from refining the details of known relationships but more often from uncovering interactions and processes that were previously unknown. The field is divided at present into camps which ...

We sampled 6 rivers of the piedmont region of Venezuela during the dry seasons of 1997 and 1998 to compare physical, chemical, and biological features and evaluate the influence of natural and anthropogenic differences in their watersheds. These 6 watersheds lie in a northeast-to-southwest transect along the interior slope of the Andes. Human disturbance declines and elevation of river origin i...

The inventory of insects collected by the Section Limnology in various aquatic environments Uruguay between 1984 and 2007 is described with aim publicizing their entry into Entomology Collection Faculty Sciences. samples include 10 orders, 43 families, 41 genera.