 Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5913-5
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396 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
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
