Pollution of lakes and rivers : a paleoenvironmental perspective / John P. Smol.
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| Language: | English |
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London : New York :
Arnold ; Oxford Univ. Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Key issues in environmental change.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.