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The diatoms : applications for the environmental and earth sciences /
"This much revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and detailed summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications in the environmental and earth sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of diatoms in analyzing ecological problems related to climate change, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Applications and uses of diatoms: prologue / John P. Smol and Eugene F. Stoermer; 2. The diatoms: a primer / Matthew L. Julius and Edward C. Theriot; 2. Numerical methods for the analysis of diatom assemblage data / H. John B. Birks
- Part II. Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Flowing Waters and Lakes: 4. Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms / R. Jan Steveson, Yangdong Pan, and Herman van Dam; 5. t Diatoms as indicators of long-term environmental change in rivers, fluvial lakes and impoundments / Euan D. Reavie and Mark B. Edlund; 6. Diatoms as indicators of surface-water acidity / Richard W. Battarbee [and others]; 7. Diatoms as indicators of lake eutrophication / Roland I. Hall and John P. Smol; 8. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes / Helen Bennion [and others]; 9. Diatoms as indicators of water-level change in freshwater lakes / Julie A. Wolin and Jeffery R. Stone; 10. Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes / Sheri C. Fritz [and others]; 11. Diatoms in ancient lakes / Anson W. Mackay, Mark B. Edlund, and Galina Khursevich
- Part III. Diatoms as Indicators in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Lacustrine Environments: 12. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in subarctic and alpine regions / André F. Lotter, Reinhard Pienitz, and Roland Schmidt; 13. Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic / Marianne S.V. Douglas and John P. Smol; 14.0 Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and subantarctic freshwaters / Sarah A. Spaulding [and others]
- Part IV. Diatoms as Indicators in Marine and Estuarine Environments: 15. Diatoms and environmental change in large brackish-water ecosystems / Pauline Snoeijs and Kaarina Weckström; 16. Applied diatom studies in estuaries and shallow coastal environments / Rose Trobajo and Michael J. Sullivan; 17. Estuarine paleoenvironmental reconstructions using diatoms / Sherri Cooper, Evelyn Gaiser, and Anna Wachnicka; 18. Diatoms on coral reefs and in tropical marine lakes / Christopher S. Lobban and Richard W. Jordan; 19. Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes / Benjamin P. Horton and Yuki Sawai; 20. Marine diatoms as indicators of modern changes in oceanographic conditions / Oscar E. Romero and Leanne K. Armand; 21. Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change / Amy Leventer, Xavier Crosta, and Jennifer Pike; 22. Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events / Richard W. Jordan and Catherine E. Stickley; 23. Reconsidering the meaning of biogenic silica accumulation rates in the glacial Southern Ocean / Christina L. De La Rocha, Olivier Ragueneau, and Aude Leynaen
- Part V. Other applications: 24. Diatoms of aerial habitats / Jeffrey R. Johansen; 25. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in wetlands and peatlands / Evelyn Gaiser and Kathleen Rühland; 26. Tracking fish, seabirds, and wildlife population dynamics with diatoms and other limnological indicators / Irene Gregory-Eaves and Bronwyn E. Keatley; 27. Diatoms and archaeology / Steve Juggins and Nigel G. Cameron; 28. Diatoms in oil and gas exploration / William N. Krebs, Andrey Yu. Gladenkov, and Gareth D. Jones; 29. Forensic science and diatoms / Anthony J. Peabody and Nigel G. Cameron; 30. Toxic marine diatoms / Maria Célia Villac, Gregory J. Doucette, and Irena Kaczmarska; 31. Diatoms as markers of atmospheric transport / Margaret A. Harper and Robert M. McKay; 32. Diatoms as nonnative species / Sarah A. Spaulding, Cathy Kilroy, and Mark B. Edlund; 33. Diatomite / David M. Harwood; 34. Stable isotopes from diatom silica / Melanie J. Leng and George E.A. Swann; 35. Diatoms and nanotechnology: early history and imagined future as seen through patents / Richard Gordon
- Part VI. Conclusions: 26. Epilogue: reflections on the past and a view to the future / John P. Smol and Eugene F. Stoermer.