DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3809c2/climate_change_imp) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems" to their offering.
This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition and contamination by toxic substances using evidence from palaeolimnology, time-series analysis, space-for-time substitution, laboratory and field experiments and process modelling.
The book evaluates these processes in relation to extreme events, seasonal changes in ecosystems, trends over decadal-scale time periods, mitigation strategies and ecosystem recovery.
The book is also concerned with how aspects of hydrophysical, hydrochemical and ecological change can be used as early indicators of climate change in aquatic ecosystems and it addresses the implications of future climate change for freshwater ecosystem management at the catchment scale.
This is an ideal book for the scientific research community, but is also accessible to Masters and senior undergraduate students.
Key Topics Covered Include the Following:
- Aquatic Ecosystem Variability and Climate Change - A Palaeoecological Perspective (Richard Battarbee)
- Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems (Ulrike Nickus, Kevin Bishop, Martin Erlandsson, Chris Evans, Martin Forsius, Hjalmar Laudon,David M Livingstone, Don Monteith and Hansjrg Thies)
- Climate Change and the Hydrology and Morphology of Freshwater Ecosystems (Piet Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, John Murphy, Sonja C Jhnig, Neil L Rose, Wolfram Graf, Karel Brabec and Leonard Sandin)
- Monitoring the Responses of Freshwater Ecosystems to Climate Change (Daniel Hering, Alexandra Haidekker, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Tom Barker, Laetitia Buisson, Wolfram Graf, Gael Grenouillet, Armin Lorenz, Leonard Sandin and Sonja Stendera)
- Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication (Erik Jeppesen, Brian Moss, Helen Bennion, Laurence Carvalho, Luc DeMeester, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Nikolai Friberg, Mark O Gessner, Mariet Hefting, Torbden L Lauridsen, Lone Liboriussen, Hilmar Malmquist, Linda May, Mariana Meerhoff, Jon S Olafsson, Merel Soons and Jos TA Verhoeven)
- Interaction of Climate Change and Acid Deposition (Richard Wright, Julian Aherne, Kevin Bishop, Peter J Dillon,Martin Erlandsson, Chris D Evans, Martin Forsius, David W Hardekopf, Rachel Helliwell, Jakub Hruka,Mike Hutchins, yvind Kaste, Jiri Kopcek, Pavel Krm, Hjalmar Laudon, Filip Moldan, Michela Rogora, Anne Merete Sjeng, Heleen A de Wit)
- Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury in Freshwater Ecosystems Under Changing Climate Conditions (Joan O Grimalt, Jordi Catalan, Pilar Fernandez, Benjami Pia, John Munthe)
- What of the Future? (Brian Moss)
Author:
Martin Kernan is an environmental scientist at the Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London. He has worked extensively on upland lakes and streams across Europe. His current research interests include the effects of atmospheric pollution and climate change on freshwater ecosystems. He was scientific co-ordinator on the Euro-limpacs Project.
Rick Battarbee is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Change at University College London with research interests in the use of diatom analysis and palaeolimnology in understanding lake ecosystem dynamics on decadal time-scales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was presented with the Ruth Patrick Award for Environmental Problem Solving by the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography in 2009.
Brian Moss has been Holbrook Gaskell Professor of Botany at the University of Liverpool since 1989 and a freshwater ecologist for many years. He has held posts in Malawi, the USA and UK and has taught or carried out research on six continents over forty-five years. He is an experimentalist whose current research involves eutrophication, lake restoration and climate change.
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