Pollution of lakes and rivers : a palaeoenvironmental perspective
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : John P Smol
- ناشر : London : Arnold
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780340741467
Description
There is no substitute for water -- How long is long? -- Sediments : an ecosystem's memory -- Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock : collecting and dating sediment cores -- Reading the records stored in sediments : the present is a key to the past -- The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone : calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets -- Acidification : finding the 'smoking gun' -- Metals, technological development, and the environment -- Persistent organic pollutants industrially synthesized chemicals 'hopping' across the planet -- Mercury : 'the metal that slipped away' -- Eutrophication : the environmental consequences of over-fertilization -- Erosion : tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water -- Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations -- Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming : the problems of multiple stressors -- New problems, new challenges.
