Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems (eBook)

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.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Contributors.

1 Introduction (Brian Moss, Richard W. Battarbee and Martin
Kernan).

2 Aquatic Ecosystem Variability and Climate Change - A
Palaeoecological Perspective (Richard W. Battarbee).

3 Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems
(Ulrike Nickus, Kevin Bishop, Martin Erlandsson, Chris D. Evans,
Martin Forsius, Hjalmar Laudon, David M. Livingstone, Don Monteith
and Hansjörg Thies).

4 Climate Change and the Hydrology and Morphology of Freshwater
Ecosystems (Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, John Murphy,
Sonja C. Jähnig, Neil L. Rose, Wolfram Graf, Karel Brabec and
Leonard Sandin).

5 Monitoring the Responses of Freshwater Ecosystems to Climate
Change (Daniel Hering, Alexandra Haidekker, Astrid
Schmidt-Kloiber, Tom Barker, Laetitia Buisson, Wolfram Graf,
Gäel Grenouillet, Armin Lorenz, Leonard Sandin and Sonja
Stendera).

6 Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication (Erik
Jeppesen, Brian Moss, Helen Bennion, Laurence Carvalho, Luc
DeMeester, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Nikolai Friberg, Mark O. Gessner,
Mariet Hefting, Torben L. Lauridsen, Lone Liboriussen, Hilmar J.
Malmquist, Linda May, Mariana Meerhoff, Jon S. Olafsson, Merel B.
Soons and Jos T.A. Verhoeven).

7 Interaction of Climate Change and Acid Deposition (Richard
F. Wright, Julian Aherne, Kevin Bishop, Peter J. Dillon, Martin
Erlandsson, Chris D. Evans, Martin Forsius, David W. Hardekopf,
Rachel C. Helliwell, Jakub HruSka, Mike Hutchins, Øyvind
Kaste, Jirí Kopácek, Pavel Krám, Hjalmar Laudon,
Filip Moldan, Michela Rogora, Anne Merete S. Sjøeng and Heleen
A. de Wit).

8 Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury in
Freshwater Ecosystems Under Changing Climate Conditions (Joan O.
Grimalt, Jordi Catalan, Pilar Fernandez, Benjami Piña and John
Munthe).

9 Climate Change: Defining Reference Conditions and Restoring
Freshwater Ecosystems (Richard K. Johnson, Richard W. Battarbee,
Helen Bennion, Daniel Hering, Merel B. Soons and Jos T.A.
Verhoeven).

10 Modelling Catchment-Scale Responses to Climate Change
(Richard A. Skeffington, Andrew J. Wade, Paul G. Whitehead, Dan
Butterfield, Øyvind Kaste, Hans Estrup Andersen, Katri
Rankinen and Gaël Grenouillet).

11 Tools for Better Decision Making: Bridges from Science to
Policy (Conor Linstead, Edward Maltby, Helle Ørsted
Nielsen, Thomas Horlitz, Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol, Kyriaki
Remoundou, Ron Janssen and Philip J. Jones).

12 What of the Future? (Brian Moss).

Index.

"In conclusion, the volume is excellent supplementary
reading for graduate students and professionals, and individual
chapters would do well as core readings on any course that looks at
climate change in a freshwater context." (Landscape
Ecology, 1 May 2013)

"Overall, the book is a valuable stand-alone publication
on the subject of climate change and freshwater
ecosystems." (Austral Ecology, 1 November
2012)

"This book makes an excellent contribution to summarizing
the current state of knowledge and deserves a place on the
bookshelves of natural scientists and decision makers
alike." (Journal of Paleolimnology, 2011)

"Overall, I think that this volume will be of great
interest to a broad audience in aquatic biology, mainly within the
limnetic community, but also to terrestrial scientists because
lakes integrate changes in the terrestrial landscape."
(The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 March 2012)

"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above." (Choice,
1 August 2011)

"Whether you agree with the interpretation or not, this is a fun
approach to science that makes the book all the more enjoyable."
(Frontiers of Biogeography, 1 June 2011)