Год выпуска: 2010
Автор: Martin Kernan
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Страниц: 328
ISBN: 9781405179133
Описание Climate change is occurring and there is little doubt now that human activity is the principal cause. However, the full extent of the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems is difficult to detect as other pressures on our freshwaters, such as pollution and land–use change, are still more important. But as temperatures continue to rise and pollution pressures are reduced, climate change will become the dominant threat to our freshwaters in future. In this book we examine the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. We consider especially 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,... |
