The Lakes Handbook, Volume 1
Limnology and Limnetic Ecology
1. Edition December 2003
708 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
1. Lakes, Limnology And Limnetic Ecology: Towards A New
Synthesis: C.S. Reynolds and P.E. O'Sullivan.
2. The Origin Of Lake Basins: H. Loffler.
3. The Hydrology Of Lakes: Thomas C. Winter.
4. Chemical Processes Regulating The Composition Of Lake Waters:
Werner Stumm.
5. Physical Properties Of Water Relevant To Limnology And
Limnetic Ecology: C.S. Reynolds.
6. The Motion Of Lake Waters: Dieter M. Imboden.
7. Regulatory Impacts Of Humic Substances In Lakes: C.E.W.
Steinberg.
8. Sedimentation And Lake Sediment Formation: J. Bloesch.
9. Organisation And Energetic Partitioning Of Limnetic
Communities: C.S. Reynolds.
10. Phytoplankton: Judit Padisak.
11. Aquatic Plants And Lake Ecosystems: Jan Pokorny and Jan
Kvet.
12. Benthic Invertebrates: Petur M. Jonasson.
13. Pelagic Microbes - Protozoa And The Microbial Food Web: T.
Weisse.
14. Zooplankton: Z. Maicej Gliwicz.
15. Fish Population Ecology: Ian J. Winfield.
16. Fish Community Ecology: Jouko Sarvala, Martti Rask and Juha
Karialainen.
17. Self-Regulation Of Limnetic Ecosystems: Claudia
Pahl-Wostl.
18. Palaeolimnology: P. O'Sullivan.
Index.
should be without this volume on the desk or bookshelves. I
anticipate regular returns to my inspection copy." (African
Journal of Aquatic Science, 2004)
"...the Editors and their contributors have provided a treasure
chest of information....researchers...would be well advised to
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"...a powerful text of such scope and calibre as to set a
benchmark for limnetic ecology in the 21st century. Achieving a
range of disparate accomplishments, it could potentially
re-catalyse lake limnology."
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Environmental Science at the University of Plymouth, UK. His
research was mainly been conducted into the development through
time of lake-watershed ecosystems, and the reconstruction of lake
ontogenies using palaeolimnological and documentary proxy records.
Throughout his teaching career, he concentrated on development of
interdisciplinary programmes in Environmental Science, and the
interface between the scientific understanding of human impact upon
natural processes in lakes, and the economic and philosophical
ideas which lie behind the solutions to 'environmental' problems.
Colin Reynolds is a Research Fellow at the Windermere
Laboratory of the Freshwater Biological Association. Most of his
work there has been directed towards the ecology and dynamics of
phytoplankton, in lakes, rivers and reservoirs. He has published
over 200 research papers, two books and edited or co-edited several
others. He won the International Prize in Limnetic Ecology in 1994
and was awarded the Naumann-Thienemann medal of SIL, the
International Association for Limnology.