The Ecological Bases for Lake and Reservoir Management

Section 1: Twenty-first Century Challenges for Lake Management.- Ecological challenges for lake management.- Economic challenges for lake management.- Lake restoration: capabilities and needs.- Towards sustainable development of stillwater resources.- Section 2: Holistic Approaches to Successful Lake Restoration and Management.- Understanding lake and catchment history as a tool for integrated lake management.- Practical application of 25 years’ research into the management of shallow lakes.- Multiple techniques for lake restoration.- Integrated management to restore macrophyte domination.- Direct and indirect mechanisms behind successful biomanipulation.- Minimising the risk and amplifying the opportunities for restoration of shallow reservoirs.- Section 3: New and Refined Ecological Tools for Lake Management.- Do reservoirs need ecological management?.- Modelling phytoplankton dynamics and its application to lake management.- Modelling the ecological aspects of bankside reservoirs and implications for management.- The importance of palaeolimnology to lake restoration.- Biological control of cyanobacteria: principles and possibilities.- Algal growth control by terrestrial leaf litter: a realistic tool?.- Aquatic macrophytes as tools for lake management.- The central role of fish in lake restoration and management.- The practical importance of the interactions between fish, zooplankton and macrophytes in shallow lake restoration.- Use of remote sensing and geographical information systems in developing lake management strategies.- Modelling catchment-scale nutrient transport to watercourses in the United Kingdom.- Section 4: Management Strategies for Different Lake Types.- Saline lakes: integrating ecology into their management future.- Understanding deep oligotrophicsubalpine lakes for efficient management.- Protecting the oligotrophic lakes of the English Lake District.- The importance of inter-annual variability for management.- The management of hypertrophic lochs: case studies in southwest Scotland.- Strategies for conservation management of lakes.- A reservoir in management-induced transition between ecological states.- Ecological principles for management techniques in deeper reservoirs.- Ecological and ecophysiological impacts of ferric dosing in reservoirs.- Shallow urban lakes: a challenge for lake management.- Life after lakes: the ecology and management of the water distribution network.- Section 5: Regional and National Strategies for Lake and Catchment Management.- Legislative challenges for lake eutrophication control in Europe.- Eutrophication control in the Netherlands.- A strategy for managing still waters in the United Kingdom.- Lake and catchment management in Denmark.- A quality classification for management of Scottish standing waters.- Keeping pristine lakes clean: Loughs Conn and Mask, western Ireland.