Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective, 2nd 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 planet.

10 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 future.

Glossary.

References.

Index