Pollution of Lakes and Rivers A Paleoenvironmental Perspective

Name: Pollution of Lakes and Rivers A Paleoenvironmental Perspective
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ISBN: 9781405159135

ISBN-10: 1405159138

ISBN-13: 9781405159135

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: John P. Smol

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Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and effectively how lake sediments can be used to reconstruct pollution history Includes over 200 additional references and a new chapter on recent climatic change and its effects on water quality and quantity Tackles present-day water quality problems from an international perspective Previously published by Hodder Arnold

Book details

List price: $84.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.72" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

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 2



Preface to the second edition.About the author



There is no substitute for water



How long is long?



Sediments: an ecosystem's memory



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



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



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



Acidification: finding the "smoking gun"



Metals, technological development, and the environment



Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized chemicals "hopping" across the planet



Mercury - "the metal that slipped away"



Eutrophication: the environmental consequences of over-fertilization



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



Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations



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



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



New problems, new challenges



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


Glossary


References


Index