Limnology Limnology Limnology ( ; from Greek λίμνη, "limne", "lake" and λόγος, "logos", "knowledge"), is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems. The study of limnology includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristics and functions of inland waters (running and standing waters, fresh and saline, natural or man-made). This includes the study of lakes, reservoirs, ponds, rivers, springs, streams, wetlands, and groundwater. A more recent sub-discipline of limnology, termed landscape limnology, studies, manages, and seeks to conserve these ecosystems using a landscape perspective, by explicitly examining connections between an aquatic ecosystem and its watershed. Recently, the need to understand
Institute of Ecosystem Study 2018, the Institute was dismantled and each of the research units of ISE was included in other institutes of CNR. The "Journal of Limnology" was the official international journal of the ISE headquarters in Verbania, and it is now the official international journal of IRSA. It publishes papers on limnology. It started in 1999 as a continuation of the "Memorie dell’Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia" (1942–1998). It is currently published by PAGEPress, is completely free to read and to publish, and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). "Tropical Zoology" was the official international journal of the unit