The Alte Donau: Successful Restoration and Sustainable Management

An Ecosystem Case Study of a Shallow Urban Lake

Martin T. Dokulil, Karl Donabaum, Katrin Teubner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 407 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-93268-2 (ISBN)

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Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality. Metropolitan waters require focused ecosystem management plans and intensive in-lake efforts. We explored physico-chemical conditions, food web from viruses to fish and water birds, the sediments, the littoral zone and the catchment, management and urban planning, and global warming. Several restoration techniques were tested and critically evaluated. The final management plan was based on bi-stable theory. During the recovery phase, numerous surplus adjustments had to be implemented to secure sustainable achievement.

1. Concepts for restoration: Nutrient loading, thresholds and alternative stable states.- 2. From a river to an urban lake. Historic development.- 3. Morphology, water temperature and climate.- 4. Hydrological aspects of Alte Donau.- 5. Restoration and lake management.- 6. Long-term changes of the physico-chemical conditions in Alte Donau.- 7. Sediment.- 8. Wax and wane of macrophytes.- 9. The signature of Phytoplankton in Alte Donau: response to trophic change from hypertrophic to mesotrophic over 22 years.- 10. Phytoplankton photosynthesis and production.- 11. The response of zooplankton to restoration and climate warming in Alte Donau.- 12. The Ciliate Assemblage in Alte Donau.- 13 Microbial and viral loop in Alte Donau: A case study.- 14. The effect of restoration measures on the benthic invertebrates of a Danube backwater (Alte Donau).- 15. Fish assemblages of the 'Alte Donau' system: Communities under various pressures.- 16. The stocks of waterbirds on the Alte Donau in Vienna.- 17. Hygienic aspects of a recreational water-body.- 18. Restoration of the littoral zone.- 19. New planning activities in Vienna's water-management.- 20. Eutrophication, management and sustainable development of urban Lakes: General considerations and specific solutions for Alte Donau - A Synthesis.

"This book provides an instructive overview about the restoration and monitoring of a vulnerable aquatic ecosystem. Photographs and diagrams illustrate the investigated organisms and landscape and the results of measurements helping the understanding. This book can be recommended to everyone interested in either restoration techniques or shallow urban lakes." (M. Duleba, Acta Botanica Hungarica, Vol. 61 (3-4), 2019)
"The book will be of interest to many freshwater specialists as well as to those concerned with the management of lakes. It should prove of particular value to limnologists working in emerging economies where the pressures connected with urban development continue to grow." (D. Glen George, SILnews, Vol. 74, June, 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Aquatic Ecology Series
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 407 p. 182 illus., 46 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	982 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Schlagworte	Alte Donau • Benthic invertebrates • eutrophication • Fish assemblages • Food web analysis • Lake management • Lake rehabilitation • Lake restoration techniques • Littoral zones • Macrophytes • nutrient loading • urban lakes • waterbirds • Water Policy • water quality • Water Quality and Water Pollution
ISBN-10	3-319-93268-3 / 3319932683
ISBN-13	978-3-319-93268-2 / 9783319932682
Zustand	Neuware