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European Large Lakes

Author : Tiina Nõges
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402083793
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book European Large Lakes written by Tiina Nõges and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large lakes are important because of their size and ecological distinctiveness as well as their economic and cultural value. Optimal management of them requires a proper understanding of anthropogenic impacts both on the lake ecosystems as such and on the services they provide for society. The specific structural and functional properties of large lakes, e.g. morphology, hydrography, biogeochemical cycles and food-web structure, are all directly related to their size. Although large lakes are among the best-studied ecosystems in the world, the application to them of environmental regulations such as the European Water Framework Directive is a challenging task and requires that several natural and management aspects specific to these water bodies are adequately considered. These vulnerable ecosystems often suffer from accelerated eutrophication, over-fishing, toxic contamination and invasive species. Large lakes offer socio-economic benefits and can be used in many ways, and are often areas in which economic, cultural and political interests overlap. In this book the problems regarding the present status of European large lakes and the directions of change are discussed. Threats caused by direct human impact and by climate change, protection needs and restoration measures are considered.

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

Author : Glen George
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048129451
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes written by Glen George and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on the dynamics of lakes in Northern, Western and Central Europe. Historical measurements from eighteen sites were used to compare the seasonal dynamics of the lakes and to assess their sensitivity to local, regional and global-scale changes in the weather. Simulations using a common set of water quality models, perturbed by six climate-change scenarios, were then used to assess the uncertainties associated with the projected changes in the climate. The book includes chapters on the phenology and modelling of lake ice, the supply and recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus, the flux of dissolved organic carbon and the growth and the seasonal succession of phytoplankton. There are also chapters on the coherent responses of lakes to changes in the circulation of the atmosphere, the development of a web-based Decision Support System and the implications of climate change for the Water Framework Directive.

Ladoga and Onego - Great European Lakes

Author : Leonid Rukhovets
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540681450
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Ladoga and Onego - Great European Lakes written by Leonid Rukhovets and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lakes Ladoga and Onego are the greatest lakes in Europe. With a surface area of 17891 km2 and a volume of 902 km3, the former is one of the top fifteen world’s freshwater lakes and is only slightly smaller than Lake Ontario. Lake Onego’s surface area is 9600 km2 and it has a volume of 292 km3. The watershed of Lake Ladoga (258000 km2) extends through Northwestern European Russia and the eastern part of Finland, including the large Lakes Ilmen and Saimaa, and together these Great European Lakes are an important link in the Caspian-Baltic-White Sea waterway system. Their ecological state affects the water quality of the Neva River, the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. Thus any changes affect the operational use, environmental protection and management of water resources of a wide area and concern such issues as drinking, recreation, transport and energy. The anthropogenic impact on the Lake Onego ecosystem is mostly determined by the sewage waters of the Petrozavodsk and Kondopoga industrial centres, while the river inflow makes the most impact on Lake Ladoga. Although the anthropogenic stress on the water ecosystems of the Great European Lakes has decreased over the last 15 years, there has been some simultaneous evidence of global warming. There is not enough current data to identify the climate-induced changes in lake ecosystems, but there is proof that the main cause of lacustrine ecosystem changes is determined by anthropogenic factors.

Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe

Author : Martina Eiseltová
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 904819265X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe written by Martina Eiseltová and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite our growing awareness of the vital role they play in the global environment, wetlands remain among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth and are still being destroyed and degraded at an alarming rate. This much-needed publication, which includes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners, presents a holistic perspective on the restoration of wetland ecosystems such as shallow lakes, streams, floodplains and bogs. Through the use of carefully chosen case studies, the authors examine European wetland restoration projects from Scandinavia to Bulgaria and from Ireland to Belarus, focusing on the lessons they can teach to a new generation of conservationists. As well as reviewing the sum of current knowledge on the subject, the text is a store of practical know-how, covering a wide range of conservation approaches and techniques. It analyzes the major problems in the field and identifies key principles for achieving sustainability in wetland restoration. The topics covered include: • the role of wetlands in landscape functioning • human interference with natural processes such as water and matter cycles and energy dissipation • the impact of land use on global problems such as climate change, floods and droughts • the role played by diversity in wetland functioning The work shows that without sustainable land use over the totality of their catchment areas, and without cohesive inter-agency cooperation, individual restoration projects will have a short life span. The balance between scientific background and practical restoration makes this book a valuable resource for scientists as well as wetland managers, decision makers and land use planners, as well as students of ecology, nature conservation and environmental protection.

Large Lakes

Author : Max M. Tilzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642840779
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Large Lakes written by Max M. Tilzer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms. Only 253 of the thousands of lakes on this planet have surface areas larger than 500 square kilometers. At first sight, this statistic would seem to indicate that large lakes are relatively unimportant on a global scale; in fact, however, large lakes contain the bulk of the liquid surface freshwater of the earth. Just Lake Baikal and the Laurentian Great Lakes alone contain more than 38% of the world's total liquid freshwater. Thus, the large lakes of the world accentuate an important feature of the earth's freshwater reserves-its extremely irregular distribution. The energy crisis of the 1970s and 1980s made us aware of the fact that we live on a spaceship with finite, that is, exhaustible resources. On the other hand, the energy crisis led to an overemphasis on all the issues concerning energy supply and all the problems connected with producing new energy. The energy crisis also led us to ignore strong evidence suggesting that water of appropriate quality to be used as a resouce will be used up more quickly than energy will. Although in principle water is a "renewable resource," the world's water reserves are diminishing in two fashions, the effects of which are multiplicative: enhanced consumption and accelerated degradation of quality.

Micropollutants in Large Lakes

Author : Nathalie Chevre
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 2889144283
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Micropollutants in Large Lakes written by Nathalie Chevre and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists, regulators, and the general public are now more and more aware of the chemicals present in surface waters worldwide. Agrochemicals, such as herbicides or insecticides, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics can be detected at low to medium concentrations in seas, groundwaters and rivers. Among freshwaters, lakes are of particular concern. These large reservoirs are used as sources of food and drinking water, but also serve for recreational activities. This book aims in presenting insights into the physical, chemical, and ecological dynamics of large lakes that enable proposing recommendations for sustainable lake management regarding chemicals. Lake Geneva, Switzerland, is used as a case study, but the developed methodologies and tools can be useful for lake water quality management in general. A first chapter is dedicated to the chemicals entering the lake through agriculture. These are mainly pesticides. After a review of the different types of compounds, the authors present the main pathways these compounds follow to enter the lake. The case of glyphosate, an herbicide largely used worldwide, is presented. A second chapter illustrates the urban source of pollutants with the case of pharmaceuticals and biocides. Two models are presented that allow estimating the load and the dynamic of these chemicals that may exit from an urban catchment and therefore reach a lake. Special attention will be paid to the ‘end of pipe’ removal of these compounds at a WWTP. A third chapter is dedicated to the lake circulation. The aim of this chapter is to present an overall description of the lake’s hydrodynamics, which is driven by three factors: wind, temperature and Coriolis forces. To achieve this aim, a hydrodynamic model is presented that allows describing the behavior of the top layer of the lake based on the wind direction. The importance of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes for characterizing the sources of water and the mixing processes in the lake is also described. The next chapters are dedicated to a Bay, called the Vidy Bay, that receives the treated effluents of the largest wastewater treatment plant of the lake catchment. This latter represents therefore one of the major point sources of contaminants for lake Geneva. These two chapters will focus on the various processes that control the transfer of chemicals (associated to particles or in a dissolved state) discharged into the bay and transported to the lake’s main water body. Then, a next chapter focuses on one major issue of chemicals in aquatic systems like lakes, i.e. the risk of the mixture of chemicals. The evaluation of the risk of mixture is not trivial and the models that allow doing it are presented in a critical way. Their validity as predictive tools is illustrated with the example of herbicides mixture in Lake Geneva. A final chapter synthesizes the main findings and discusses some recommendations for the management of large lakes regarding micropollution.

Lakes and Reservoirs in the EEA Area

Author : J. Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakes and Reservoirs in the EEA Area written by J. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Overview of major lakes and reservoirs in Europe - 2. Overview of environmental changes relating to lakes and reservoirs - 3. Eutrophication - 4. Acidification - 5. Other types of water quality problems - 6. Sedimentation and drainage - 7. Environmental changes due to dam construction.

Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs

Author : Lars Bengtsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781402056161
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs written by Lars Bengtsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lakes and reservoirs hold about 90% of the world's surface fresh water, but overuse, water withdrawal and pollution of these bodies puts some one billion people at risk. The Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs reviews the physical, chemical and ecological characteristics of lakes and reservoirs, and describes their uses and environmental state trends in different parts of the world. Superbly illustrated throughout, it includes some 200 entries in a range of topics, including acidification, artificialisation, canals, climate change effects, dams, dew ponds, drainage, eutrofication, evaporation, fisheries, hydro-electric power, nutrients, organic pollution, paleolimnology, reservoir capacities and depths, sedimentation, water resources and more.

Indiana Elementary Geography

Author : Jacques Wardlaw Redway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indiana Elementary Geography written by Jacques Wardlaw Redway and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes

Author : Kolumban Hutter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642234380
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes written by Kolumban Hutter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internal wave dynamics in lakes (and oceans) is an important physical component of geophysical fluid mechanics of ‘quiescent’ water bodies of the Globe. The formation of internal waves requires seasonal stratification of the water bodies and generation by (primarily) wind forces. Because they propagate in basins of variable depth, a generated wave field often experiences transformation from large basin-wide scales to smaller scales. As long as this fission is hydrodynamically stable, nothing dramatic will happen. However, if vertical density gradients and shearing of the horizontal currents in the metalimnion combine to a Richardson number sufficiently small (

Lewis and Clark's Continental Journey

Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781403497574
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Lewis and Clark's Continental Journey by : Elizabeth Raum

Download or read book Lewis and Clark's Continental Journey written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the western United States still a mysterious land? Why was it important to find a water route across the continent? What did the first explorers to the West discover on their way? Take a step back in time and discover the facts behind a groundbreaking adventure: a river-based journey across the American West. Join the Corps of Discovery as they conquer treacherous waters, make peace with Native Americans, ride horseback over mountains, and become national heroes! Find out about the difficulties the expedition faced: the hungry grizzly bears, the terrifying Great Falls, the long, icy winters, and the threat of starvation. Learn more about the wild environment of the West, and the plants and animals the Corps discovered as they boldly paved the way to the Pacific Ocean.

Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts and Management

Author : Erkki Leppäkoski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402008375
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts and Management written by Erkki Leppäkoski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt to provide an overall picture of aquatic species invasions in Europe. Its geographical scope stretches from Irish waters in the west to the Volga River and the Caspian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the south up to the Arctic coast of Europe. Not all parts of the continent could be covered equally, as in some countries species invasions are not yet studied. The book represents the array of all major European aquatic systems in the broadest geographical and ecological scope possible, from fully saline seas, semi-enclosed brackish water bodies and coastal lagoons to freshwater lakes, major river systems and waterways. The key objectives include the present status and impacts on economy and environment caused by non-native aquatic species in European waters. Altogether more than 100 scientists from 24 countries have joined together to synthesize the available information on bio-invasions.

Europe

Author : Frederick William Rudler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe written by Frederick William Rudler and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lakes, Revised Edition

Author : Erik Hanson
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1438182511
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Lakes, Revised Edition written by Erik Hanson and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a scientific tour and a journey through time, this intriguing, eBook profiles 10 of the world's most exciting lakes. From the Caspian Sea, a giant salt water lake; to Lake Eyre, the lake that vanishes; to the sub-Arctic Great Slave Lake, the story of each lake unfolds with a look at its origins, how it has changed over time, and why. Featured lakes are found in the Middle East, the United States, Russia, South America, Europe, Australia, and Canada. Eye-catching images and illustrations complement the lively text.

Plankton Investigations of the Danish Lakes

Author : Danish Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Frederiksdal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plankton Investigations of the Danish Lakes written by Danish Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Frederiksdal and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philips' elementary atlas and geography, ed. by J.F. Williams

Author : Philip George and son, ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Philips' elementary atlas and geography, ed. by J.F. Williams written by Philip George and son, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A review of major river basins and large lakes relevant to inland fisheries

Author : Ainsworth, R., Cowx, I.G., Funge-Smith, S.J.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251338264
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A review of major river basins and large lakes relevant to inland fisheries written by Ainsworth, R., Cowx, I.G., Funge-Smith, S.J. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review presents summary information on 45 river and great lake basins of the world, which support inland fisheries. The information presented is drawn from published information in peer-reviewed journals as well as grey literature. Each basin summary is presented in a common format, covering the description of the fishery, estimates of catch and numbers of people engaged in the fishery, important biodiversity features and threats to the fishery. An analysis of the replacement costs of inland fish of the basin is also presented. This is expressed in terms of the water, land and greenhouse gas footprint that would arise if the inland fish that are currently produced had to be replaced with other forms of food (such as aquaculture fish, livestock or field crops).