The lakes handbook/ 1, Limnology and limnetic ecology

Patrick O’Sullivan, C. S. Reynolds0632047976, 9780632047970

Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes.
The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation.
This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study. Brings together basic science and management issues. International coverage and international authors. Reviews management issues at a level suitable for the non-expert.

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Table of contents :
The Lakes Handbook VOLUME 1 LIMNOLOGY AND LIMNETIC ECOLOGY……Page 5
Contents……Page 7
List of Contributors……Page 9
1 LAKES, LIMNOLOGY AND LIMNETIC ECOLOGY: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS……Page 11
2 THE ORIGIN OF LAKE BASINS……Page 18
3 THE HYDROLOGY OF LAKES……Page 71
4 CHEMICAL PROCESSES REGULATING THE COMPOSITION OF LAKE WATERS……Page 89
5 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER RELEVANT TO LIMNOLOGY AND LIMNETIC ECOLOGY……Page 117
6 THE MOTION OF LAKE WATERS……Page 125
7 REGULATORY IMPACTS OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES IN LAKES……Page 163
8 SEDIMENTATION AND LAKE SEDIMENT FORMATION……Page 207
9 ORGANISATION AND ENERGETIC PARTITIONING OF LIMNETIC COMMUNITIES……Page 240
10 PHYTOPLANKTON……Page 261
11 AQUATIC PLANTS AND LAKE ECOSYSTEMS……Page 319
12 BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES……Page 351
13 PELAGIC MICROBES – PROTOZOA AND THE MICROBIAL FOOD WEB……Page 427
14 ZOOPLANKTON……Page 471
15 FISH POPULATION ECOLOGY……Page 527
16 FISH COMMUNITY ECOLOGY……Page 548
17 SELF-REGULATION OF LIMNETIC ECOSYSTEMS……Page 593
18 PALAEOLIMNOLOGY……Page 619
Index……Page 677