Climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Martin Kernan, Rick Battarbee and Brian Moss

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823280903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-77460-3; 9786612774607; 1-4443-2739-9; 1-4443-2740-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KernanM. R; BattarbeeR. W; MossBrian <1943->
• Disciplina: 577.6/22
• Soggetti: Freshwater habitats; Freshwater ecology; Climatic changes - Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Aquatic Ecosystem Variability and Climate Change - A Palaeoecological Perspective; 3 Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems; 4 Climate Change and the Hydrology and Morphology of Freshwater Ecosystems; 5 Monitoring the Responses of Freshwater Ecosystems to Climate Change; 6 Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication; 7 Interaction of Climate Change and Acid Deposition; 8 Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury in Freshwater Ecosystems Under Changing Climate Conditions9 Climate Change: Defining Reference Conditions and Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems; 10 Modelling Catchment-Scale Responses to Climate Change; 11 Tools for Better Decision Making: Bridges from Science to Policy; 12 What of the Future?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the ; interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition and contamination by toxic substances using evidence from palaeolimnology, time-series analysis, space-for-time substitution, laboratory and field experiments and process modelling. The book evaluates these processes in relation to extreme events, seasonal changes in ecosystems, trends over decadal-scale time periods, mitigation