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Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs

The world's growing population faces the challenge of meeting ever-larger demands for  fresh water, not only for drinking but also for agriculture, industry and recreation. Already some one billion people are at risk from over-use, water withdrawals and pollution of these water bodies So scient...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Bengtsson, Lars (Editor ), Herschy, Reginald W. (Editor ), Fairbridge, Rhodes W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acidification in Lakes
  • Africa, Lakes Review
  • Age Determination of Lake Deposits
  • Alpin Lakes
  • Alternative Stable States in Shallow Lakes
  • Amazon Lakes
  • Antarctic Lakes
  • Antarctic Subglacial Lake Ellsworth
  • Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok
  • Antarctic Subglacial Lakes
  • Aquatic Plants
  • Arab Region, Lakes and Reservoirs
  • Aral Sea
  • Arch Dams, Development from Cut.-Stone Arches to Modern Design
  • Arctic Lakes
  • Artificial Wetlands
  • Asia, Lakes Review
  • Australia, Climate and Lakes
  • Australia, Coastal Paleolakes of "Swanland"
  • Baikal, Lake
  • Balaton Lake in Hungary
  • Baltic Sea Basin, History Since the Latest Deglaciation
  • Basin.-Scale Internal Waves
  • Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Freshwater Lochs, 1897-1909
  • Beaver Dams and Ponds
  • Bengal Basin, Sediment Sink
  • Brownification of Lakes
  • Carbon Cycle in Lakes
  • Caribbean.-Central America, Lakes Review
  • Carinthia Lakes and Reservoirs in Austria
  • Caspian Sea
  • Chad Lake
  • Chilika Lake
  • Chinese Lakes
  • Circulation Processes in Lakes
  • Classification of Lakes from Hydrological Function
  • Classification of Lakes from Origin Processes
  • Climate Change Effects on Lakes
  • Climate Change: Factors Causing Variation or Change in the Climate
  • Coastal Lagoons
  • Cyanobacteria (Blue.-Green Algae)
  • Dam Failures: Impact on Reservoir Safety Legislation in Great Britain
  • Dams and Reservoirs in Macedonia
  • Dams and Reservoirs, Role
  • Dams, Classification
  • Dams, Flood Protection, and Risk
  • Dead Sea
  • Deltaic Swamps
  • Dew Ponds.-Dissolved Oxygen in Ice.-Covered Lakes
  • Double.-Diffusive Convection in Lakes
  • Droughts and Water Management in England and Wales: With Particular Reference to Reservoirs and Lakes
  • Ecological Threat to Lakes and Reservoirs
  • English Lakes
  • Estuarine Hydrology
  • Europe, Lakes Review
  • Eutrophication in Fresh Waters: An International Review
  • Everglades, Florida, USA
  • Fens, England
  • Finnish Lakes
  • Finnish Lakes, Trends and Regional Differences of Phytoplankton
  • Floodplain Wetlands: Focusing on India
  • Forth and Clyde and Union Ship Canals, UK
  • Geneva Lake
  • Gippsland Lakes
  • Glacier Jökulhlaup
  • Great Lake Processes: Thermal Structure, Circulation and Turbulent Diffusion Processes
  • Great Lakes, North America.-Great Salt Lake
  • Hazards
  • Health Aspects of Lakes and Reservoirs
  • Hydrodynamics and Circulation of Fjords
  • Hydrodynamics of Very Shallow Lakes
  • Hydrological Sizing of Water Supply Reservoirs
  • Hydropower
  • Ice Covered Lakes
  • Ice Formation on Lakes and Ice Growth
  • Icelandic Lakes, Physical Characteristics
  • Indian Lakes
  • Initial Mixing of Pollutants
  • Internal Seiches
  • Japanese Lakes
  • Katse Dam: Lesotha Highlands Water Project
  • Kingairloch Hydroelectric Scheme
  • Kis.-Balaton and its Effect on Lake Balaton Water Quality
  • Ladoga Lake and Onego Lake (Lakes Ladozhskoye and Onezhskoye)
  • Lake Ice
  • Lake Monster
  • Lake Outbursts
  • Lake Restoration
  • Lake Sediments
  • Lake Shore Nomenclature
  • Lake Surveying
  • Lakes as Archives of Earth History
  • Lakes on Earth, different types
  • Large Dams and Environment
  • Large Dams, Statistics and Critical Review
  • Laurentian Great Lakes, Interaction of Coastal and Offshore Waters
  • Light and Primary Production in Lakes
  • Limnological Studies in Lake Erken Sweden
  • Loch Katrine
  • Lough
  • Lough Neagh
  • Macedonian Lakes
  • Maracaibo Lake
  • Marib Dam and Irrigation Project
  • Mass Curve and Reservoir Design
  • Memphremagog, Lake
  • Meromictic Lakes
  • Microorganisms in Lakes and Reservoirs
  • Mixing in Lakes
  • Myponga Reservoir, South Australia: The Influence of Nutrients, Phytoplankton, Pathogens, and Organic Carbon on Water Quality
  • Nahuel Huapí, Lake
  • Nasser Lake
  • Nile Basin, Lakes
  • North Delta Lakes, Egypt
  • Nutrient Balance, Light, and Primary Production
  • Okeechobee, Lake, Florida, USA
  • Origin of Lakes and Their Physical Characteristics
  • Paleolakes
  • Paleolimnology
  • Peipsi Lake in Estonia/Russia
  • Phosphor Exchange Sediment.-Water
  • Playa Lake Chains: The Example of the Yenyening Lakes of the Upper Avon River Catchment of Western Australia
  • Poopó Lake, Bolivia
  • Reservoir and Lake Trap Efficiency
  • Reservoir Capacity
  • Reservoir Sedimentation
  • Reservoir Sedimentation in Australia under Extreme Conditions
  • Reservoirs in Great Britain
  • Reservoirs, Early British History
  • Reservoirs, Multipurpose Use of Small Reservoirs
  • Restoration of Urban Lakes in the NE Musi Basin, Hyderabad, India
  • Riverine Thermal Bar
  • Russian Lakes
  • Russian Lakes, Geographical Classification
  • Russian Water Reservoirs
  • Saki, Lake (Crimea, Ukraine)
  • Satellite Data and Lakes
  • Sedimentation Processes in Lakes
  • Sediments, Flushing from Reservoirs
  • Slovenia, Lakes and Reservoirs
  • Source of Freshwater
  • South America, Holocene Coastal Lagoons
  • South America, Lakes Review
  • Stratification and Mixing in Tropical African Lakes
  • Stratification in Lakes
  • Submerged Vegetation in Shallow Lakes
  • Surface Seiches
  • Suspended Sediment Concentration in Stratified Lakes estimated by Accoustic Methods
  • Sweden's Great Lakes
  • Swedish Glacial Lakes: Estimation of the Number of Lakes of Different Sizes
  • Tanganyika Lake, Modeling the Eco.-hydrodynamics
  • Tanganyika Lake: Strong in Hydrodynamics, Diverse in Ecology
  • Thames Water: Development of London's Potable Water Supply and the Role of Bankside Storage Reservoirs
  • Thermal Bar
  • Thermal Regime of Lakes
  • Thermobaric Stratification of Very Deep Lakes
  • Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River in China
  • Titicaca Lake
  • Transboundary Waters: Rivers, Lakes, and Groundwaters
  • Trophic Lake Classification
  • Tsunami Effect on a Coastal Lake in India
  • Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs
  • Udaipur, Lakes
  • United Kingdom, Largest Lakes
  • United States: Principal Freshwater Lakes
  • Urban Lakes and Ponds
  • Venting Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs
  • Victoria Lake
  • Volume of Water in Lakes and Reservoirs: Determination
  • Võrtsjärv Lake in Estonia
  • Water Balance of Lakes
  • Water Balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes
  • Water Exchange Between Littoral Zone and Open Lake Water
  • Water Framework Directive
  • Water Quality for Drinking: WHO Guidelines
  • Water Quality in Lakes and Reservoirs
  • Wetland Areas and Lakes in Bulgaria
  • Wetlands
  • Wetlands of the Canadian Arctic
  • Wetlands: Classification, Distribution, Function
  • Wind Waves
  • World Lake Database: International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC)
  • World Lake Vision
  • Xiaolangdi Reservoir's Role in Water and Sediment Regulation.    .