Talk:Limnology
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to this page and add the quality rating to that template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.Limnology is the study of all in-land bodies of water, which include not just fresh waters, but saline lakes as well.
Merge
I am deleting the merge template (with Freshwater biology), both because as the person noted above, that Limnology is not just about freshwater, but also because limnology is not just about biology, but is also about biological, physical, chemical, and hydrological aspects. BlankVerse ∅ 10:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Agreed. When the textbooks all change their names, then we can consider merging. :-) Stan 13:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Division of hydrology?!
I'm a hydrologist. I have also worked with limnologists. I am very confident that none of the hydrologists and limnologists I know would consider limnology to be a division of hydrology. If it needs to be compartmentalised (which is debatable), it would be far more accurate to place it within ecology. While the environment is certainly a wet one, the subjects of interest tend to be organisms and biogeochemical cycling (ecology), not the amount and movement of water per se (hydrology). [NB. Biogeochemistry doesn't really include H2O as much as N, P, S, etc.] It would probably be more accurate to say hydrology and limnology are allied fields, and that limnology is generally the purview of ecologists. FYI. Daniel Collins (talk) 10:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)