Pollution of Lakes and Rivers

A Paleoenvironmental Perspective
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5913-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

Behandelt werden alle wichtigen Aspekte der Wasserqualität, einen Schwerpunkt bildet die Untersuchung von Sedimenten, die dazu dient, die Herkunft von Verschmutzungen zu rekonstruieren. Diese zweite Auflage ist in 17 Kapitel unterteilt und bietet ein umfangreiches Glossar.

Zielgruppe

upper level undergraduate and graduate students in geography, geology, biology and environmental studies, researchers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smol, John P

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the second edition.
About the author.

1 There is no substitute for water.

2 How long is long?.

3 Sediments: an ecosystem’s memory.

4 Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock: collecting and dating sediment cores.

5 Reading the records stored in sediments: the present is a key to the past.

6 The paleolimnologist’s Rosetta Stone: calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets.

7 Acidification: finding the “smoking gun”.

8 Metals, technological development, and the environment.

9 Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized chemicals “hopping” across the planet.

10 Mercury – “the metal that slipped away”.

11 Eutrophication: the environmental consequences of over-fertilization.

12 Erosion: tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water.

13 Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations.

14 Greenhouse gas emissions and a changing atmosphere: tracking the effects of climatic change on water resources.

15 Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming: the problems of multiple stressors.

16 New problems, new challenges.

17 Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our future.

Glossary.

References.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John P. Smol FRSC is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Environmental Reviews and is the founding editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology, which he edited from 1987 to 2007