Lake Taihu, located in the delta of Yangtze River, is a typical large, shallow eutrophic lake. This book provides basic data on various aspects of this lake and summarizes research work on the interaction between its ecology and physical limnology.

This book synthesises the historical trends of the lake fisheries, the lake ecology, biology and biodiversity, socio-economics, stock assessment, aquaculture, fish quality assurance, environmental quality and management of the fisheries resources.

This volume merges all geographical and paleogeographical data on all groups of the arachnofauna. Furthermore, amongst other topics the volume also includes chapters on the systems of arachnida, fossil orders, dispersal and dispersion, endemics and relicts, regional arachnogeography, cave and high altitude arachnida.