Kernan / Battarbee / Moss Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9127-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwaterecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers theinteractions between climate change and other drivers of changeincluding hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, aciddeposition and contamination by toxic substances using evidencefrom palaeolimnology, time-series analysis, space-for-timesubstitution, laboratory and field experiments and processmodelling. The book evaluates these processes in relation toextreme events, seasonal changes in ecosystems, trends overdecadal-scale time periods, mitigation strategies and ecosystemrecovery.
The book is also concerned with how aspects of hydrophysical,hydrochemical and ecological change can be used as early indicatorsof climate change in aquatic ecosystems and it addresses theimplications of future climate change for freshwater ecosystemmanagement at the catchment scale.
This is an ideal book for the scientific research community, butis also accessible to Masters and senior undergraduatestudents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kernan, Martin

Battarbee, Richard W.

Moss, Brian R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Contributors.
1 Introduction (Brian Moss, Richard W. Battarbee and MartinKernan).
2 Aquatic Ecosystem Variability and Climate Change - APalaeoecological Perspective (Richard W. Battarbee).
3 Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems(Ulrike Nickus, Kevin Bishop, Martin Erlandsson, Chris D. Evans,Martin Forsius, Hjalmar Laudon, David M. Livingstone, Don Monteithand Hansjörg Thies).
4 Climate Change and the Hydrology and Morphology of FreshwaterEcosystems (Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, John Murphy,Sonja C. Jähnig, Neil L. Rose, Wolfram Graf, Karel Brabec andLeonard Sandin).
5 Monitoring the Responses of Freshwater Ecosystems to ClimateChange (Daniel Hering, Alexandra Haidekker, AstridSchmidt-Kloiber, Tom Barker, Laetitia Buisson, Wolfram Graf,Gäel Grenouillet, Armin Lorenz, Leonard Sandin and SonjaStendera).
6 Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication (ErikJeppesen, Brian Moss, Helen Bennion, Laurence Carvalho, LucDeMeester, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Nikolai Friberg, Mark O. Gessner,Mariet Hefting, Torben L. Lauridsen, Lone Liboriussen, Hilmar J.Malmquist, Linda May, Mariana Meerhoff, Jon S. Olafsson, Merel B.Soons and Jos T.A. Verhoeven).
7 Interaction of Climate Change and Acid Deposition (RichardF. Wright, Julian Aherne, Kevin Bishop, Peter J. Dillon, MartinErlandsson, Chris D. Evans, Martin Forsius, David W. Hardekopf,Rachel C. Helliwell, Jakub HruSka, Mike Hutchins, ØyvindKaste, Jirí Kopácek, Pavel Krám, Hjalmar Laudon,Filip Moldan, Michela Rogora, Anne Merete S. Sjøeng and HeleenA. de Wit).
8 Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury inFreshwater Ecosystems Under Changing Climate Conditions (Joan O.Grimalt, Jordi Catalan, Pilar Fernandez, Benjami Piña and JohnMunthe).
9 Climate Change: Defining Reference Conditions and RestoringFreshwater Ecosystems (Richard K. Johnson, Richard W. Battarbee,Helen Bennion, Daniel Hering, Merel B. Soons and Jos T.A.Verhoeven).
10 Modelling Catchment-Scale Responses to Climate Change(Richard A. Skeffington, Andrew J. Wade, Paul G. Whitehead, DanButterfield, Øyvind Kaste, Hans Estrup Andersen, KatriRankinen and Gaël Grenouillet).
11 Tools for Better Decision Making: Bridges from Science toPolicy (Conor Linstead, Edward Maltby, Helle ØrstedNielsen, Thomas Horlitz, Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol, KyriakiRemoundou, Ron Janssen and Philip J. Jones).
12 What of the Future? (Brian Moss).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Kernan is an environmental scientist at theEnvironmental Change Research Centre, University College London. Hehas worked extensively on upland lakes and streams across Europe.His current research interests include the effects of atmosphericpollution and climate change on freshwater ecosystems. He wasscientific co-ordinator on the Euro-limpacs Project.
Rick Battarbee is Emeritus Professor of EnvironmentalChange at University College London with research interests in theuse of diatom analysis and palaeolimnology in understanding lakeecosystem dynamics on decadal time-scales. He is a Fellow of theRoyal Society and Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy ofScience and Letters. He has published over 200 research papers,including eight in Nature. He is chair of the InternationalPaleolimnology Association and was presented with the Ruth PatrickAward for Environmental Problem Solving by the American Society forLimnology and Oceanography in 2009.
Brian Moss has been Holbrook Gaskell Professor of Botanyat the University of Liverpool since 1989 and a freshwaterecologist for many years. He has held posts in Malawi, the USA andUK and has taught or carried out research on six continents overforty-five years. He is an experimentalist whose current researchinvolves eutrophication, lake restoration and climate change and,in addition to the conventional long list of papers in learnedjournals, he has published a well-known text book on the Ecology ofFreshwaters, and a New Naturalist book on 'The Broads'.He is also much concerned with wider global environmental problemsand how art and poetry might be used to get over messages about theenvironment to the wider public. He has been President of theBritish Phycological Society, Vice-president of the BritishEcological Society and editor of the Journal of Ecology, andrecently was elected President of the International Association forLimnology. He was awarded the Association'sNaumann-Thienemann Medal in 2007 for his research and leadership increating new understanding of shallow lake function. Despite allthis he would want to be remembered as a non-establishment,liberated iconoclast.