The Diatoms

by Smol, John P.; Stoermer, Eugene F.

• ISBN13: 9780521509961
• ISBN10: 0521509963
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This much revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and detailed summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications in the environmental and earth sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of diatoms in analysing ecological problems related to climate change, acidification, eutrophication, and other pollution issues. The chapters are divided into sections for easy reference, with separate sections covering indicators in different aquatic environments. A final section explores diatom use in other fields of study such as forensics, oil and gas exploration, nanotechnology, and archaeology. Sixteen new chapters have been added since the first edition including introductory chapters on diatom biology and the numerical approaches used by diatomists. The extensive glossary has also been expanded and now includes over 1,000 detailed entries, which will help non-specialists to use the book effectively.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Applications and uses of diatoms: prologue

The diatoms: a primer

Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data

Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Flowing Waters and Lakes

Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms

Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in rivers, fluvial lakes and impoundments

Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity

Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes

Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes

Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes

Diatoms in ancient lakes

Diatoms as Indicators in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Lacustrine Environments

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions

Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters

Diatoms as Indicators in Marine and Estuarine Environments

Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems

Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments

Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms

Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes

Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes

Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions

Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change

Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events

Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean

Other Applications

Diatoms of aerial habitats

Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands

Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators

Diatoms and archaeology

Diatoms in oil and gas exploration

Forensic science and diatoms

Toxic marine diatoms

Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport

Diatoms as nonnative species

Diatomite

Stable isotopes from diatom silica

Diatoms and nanotechnology: early history and imagined future as seen through patents

Conclusions

Epilogue: a view to the future

Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations

Index

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