The Lakes Handbook 2 Volume Set

by O'Sullivan, Patrick; Reynolds, C. S.

• ISBN13: 9780632047949
• ISBN10: 0632047941
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes. The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation. This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study. Brings together basic science and management issues. Provides international coverage and international authors. Reviews management issues at a level suitable for the non-expert.

Author Biography

Patrick O'Sullivan was formerly Principal Lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Plymouth, UK. His research was mainly been conducted into the development through time of lake-watershed ecosystems, and the reconstruction of lake ontogenies using palaeolimnological and documentary proxy records. Throughout his teaching career, he concentrated on development of interdisciplinary programmes in Environmental Science, and the interface between the scientific understanding of human impact upon natural processes in lakes, and the economic and philosophical ideas which lie behind the solutions to 'environmental' problems.

Colin Reynolds is a Research Fellow at the Windermere Laboratory of the Freshwater Biological Association. Most of his work there has been directed towards the ecology and dynamics of phytoplankton, in lakes, rivers and reservoirs. He has published over 200 research papers, two books and edited or co-edited several others. He won the International Prize in Limnetic Ecology in 1994 and was awarded the Naumann–Thienemann medal of SIL, the International Association for Limnology.

Table of Contents

Lakes, Limnology And Limnetic Ecology: Towards A New Synthesis

The Origin Of Lake Basins

The Hydrology Of Lakes

Chemical Processes Regulating The Composition Of Lake Waters

Physical Properties Of Water Relevant To Limnology And Limnetic Ecology

The Motion Of Lake Waters

Regulatory Impacts Of Humic Substances In Lakes

Sedimentation And Lake Sediment Formation

Organisation And Energetic Partitioning Of Limnetic Communities

Phytoplankton

Aquatic Plants And Lake Ecosystems

Benthic Invertebrates

Pelagic Microbes - Protozoa And The Microbial Food Web

Zooplankton

Fish Population Ecology

Fish Community Ecology

Self-Regulation Of Limnetic Ecosystems

Palaeolimnology

General Issues

Introduction: Eutrophication And The Value Of Lakes

Assault On The Quality Of Lakes

Regional Studies

Lakes - North America

Lake Washington

Nordic Lakes

Alpine Lakes

Lake Baikal

Lakes Of The Arid Zone

Lakes Of Latin America

Human Impact On Specific Lake Types

Shallow, Temperate Lakes

Shallow, Tropical Lakes

Reservoirs

Lake Acidification

Lake And Catchment Models

Catchment Models

OECD Models

Lake Models

The Reversal Of Eutrophication

Biomanipulation

Restoration Of Acidified Lakes

Legal Frameworks

North America

Nordic Europe

East Africa

South Africa

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