Book description
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 strategies and ecosystem recovery.
The book is also concerned with how aspects of hydrophysical,
hydrochemical and ecological change can be used as early indicators of
climate change in aquatic ecosystems and it addresses the implications
of future climate change for freshwater ecosystem management at the
catchment scale.
This is an ideal book for the scientific research community, but is
also accessible to Masters and senior undergraduate students.
Martin Kernan is an environmental scientist at the
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London. He
has worked extensively on upland lakes and streams across Europe. His
current research interests include the effects of atmospheric
pollution and climate change on freshwater ecosystems. He was
scientific co-ordinator on the Euro-limpacs Project.
Rick Battarbee is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Change at
University College London with research interests in the use of diatom
analysis and palaeolimnology in understanding lake ecosystem dynamics
on decadal time-scales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and
Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He has
published over 200 research papers, including eight in Nature.
He is chair of the International Paleolimnology Association and was
presented with the Ruth Patrick Award for Environmental Problem
Solving by the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography in 2009.
Brian Moss has been Holbrook Gaskell Professor of Botany at the
University of Liverpool since 1989 and a freshwater ecologist for many
years. He has held posts in Malawi, the USA and UK and has taught or
carried out research on six continents over forty-five years. He is an
experimentalist whose current research involves eutrophication, lake
restoration and climate change and, in addition to the conventional
long list of papers in learned journals, he has published a well-known
text book on the Ecology of Freshwaters, and a New Naturalist book on
'The Broads'. He is also much concerned with wider global
environmental problems and how art and poetry might be used to get
over messages about the environment to the wider public. He has been
President of the British Phycological Society, Vice-president of the
British Ecological Society and editor of the Journal of Ecology, and
recently was elected President of the International Association for
Limnology. He was awarded the Association's Naumann-Thienemann Medal
in 2007 for his research and leadership in creating new understanding
of shallow lake function. Despite all this he would want to be
remembered as a non-establishment, liberated iconoclast.
