Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
A Paleoenvironmental Perspective
Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
ISBN: 978-1-119-74878-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Table of Contents
Preface to the third edition
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 biological assemblages 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. Greenhouse gas emissions and a changing atmosphere: A primer of tracking climatic change using lake sediments
13. Tracking the frequency, magnitude, and drivers of algal blooms in a warming climate
14. Lakewater browning, acid rain, climatic warming, and ozone depletion: The challenges of a multiple stressor world
15. Declining calcium levels in softwater lakes: When too little of something becomes a problem
16. From pavement to the pelagic zone: The salinization of surface waters
17. Erosion: Tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water
18. Tracking species invasions and introductions through time
19. Plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other pressing issues
20. Conservation biology meets paleolimnology
21. Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our future
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