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Pollution of Lakes and Rivers : a Paleoenvironmental Perspective.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2009.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition; About the author; 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 indicators 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 planet10 Mercury
- "the metal that slipped away"; 11 Eutrophication: the environmental consequences of over-fertilization; 12 Erosion: tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water; 13 Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations; 14 Greenhouse gas emissions and a changing atmosphere: tracking the effects of climatic change on water resources; 15 Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming: the problems of multiple stressors; 16 New problems, new challenges.
- 17 Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our futureGlossary; References; Index.