Acknowledgments

I am grateful to a large number of organisations, over many years, for support of research on which this article draws. These include the Nature Conservancy Council (UK) and its successor, English Nature, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Dept of the Environment (UK) (now the Dept of Evironment, Transport and the Regions), the Anglian Water Authority (now Anglian Water plc and the Environment Agency), the Broads Authority, the European Community and the Soap and Detergent Industries Association. In recent years we have been very grateful to the Mere Golf and Country Club, Cheshire, for permission to use Little Mere for many of our enclosure experiments. I also owe a great deal to my many colleagues both from my research group and in other laboratories for their many contributions to the development of these ideas

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