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Title

Acidification of freshwater ecosystems : implications for the future : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Acidification of Freshwater Ecosystems held in Berlin, September 27-October 2, 1992 / edited by C.E.W. Steinberg and R.F. Wright ; program advisory committee, C.E.W. Steinberg [and others].

Author

Dahlem Workshop on Acidification of Freshwater Ecosystems (1992 : Berlin, Germany)

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Steinberg, Christian.
• Wright, Richard F.
• Freie Universität Berlin.
• Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Stiftungsfonds Unilever zur Wissenschafts- und Bildungsförderung.

Description

xv, 404 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Environmental sciences research report ; ES 14
• Dahlem workshop reports

Uniform Title

• Environmental sciences research report ; ES 14.
• Dahlem workshop reports.

Subject

• Acid pollution of rivers, lakes, etc > Congresses

Note

• "Held and published on behalf of the Freie Universität Berlin; sponsored by Stiftungsfond Unilever im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft"--Half t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / C. E. W. Steinberg and R. F. Wright -- 2. Acidic Emissions and Political Systems / T. Paces -- 3. Billion Dollar Problem, Billion Dollar Solution? Transboundary Air Pollution Calls for Transboundary Solutions / A. Lukewille -- 4. The Relative Importance of Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds in the Acidification of Fresh Water / H. Van Miegroet -- 5. Lake Acidification and the Role of Paleolimnology / R. W. Battarbee and D. F. Charles -- 6. Influence of Soil Development and Management Practices on Freshwater Acidification in Central European Forest Ecosystems / K. H. Feger -- 7. Influence of Management Practices in Catchments on Freshwater Acidification: Afforestation in the United Kingdom and North America / R. Harriman, G. E. Likens, H. Hultberg and C. Neal -- 8. Role of Organic Acids in Acidification of Fresh Waters / H. F. Hemond.
• 9. Group Report: Can We Differentiate between Natural and Anthropogenic Acidification? / B. Emmett, D. Charles, K. H. Feger, R. Harriman, H. F. Hemond, H. Hultberg, D. Lessmann, A. Ovalle, H. Van Miegroet and H. W. Zoettl -- 10. Effects of Acidification on Trace Metal Transport in Fresh Waters / J. Vesely -- 11. Changes Caused by Acidification to the Biodiversity: Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles of Lakes / D. W. Schindler -- 12. Trace Organic Contaminants in Anthropogenically Acidified Surface Waters / J. Ford and T. C. Young -- 13. Group Report: Interactions among Acidification, Phosphorus, Contaminants, and Biota in Freshwater Ecosystems / D. H. Landers, S. E. Bayley, J. Ford, J. M. Gunn, A. Lukewille, S. A. Norton, C. E. W. Steinberg, J. Vesely and M. T. Zahn -- 14. Biological Processes that Affect Water Chemistry / C. Kelly -- 15. Extrapolating from Toxicological Findings to Regional Estimations of Acidification Damage / J. M. Gunn and N. Belzile.
• 16. Physiological Mechanisms for Toxic Effects and Resistance to Acidic Water: An Ecophysiological and Ecotoxicological Approach / B. O. Rosseland and M. Staurnes -- 17. Molecular Approaches for the Investigation of the Genetic Composition in Aquatic Ecosystems / A. Hartmann -- 18. The Biological Effects of Acid Episodes / S. J. Ormerod and A. Jenkins -- 19. Group Report: Physiological and Ecological Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota / D. F. Brakke, J. P. Baker, J. Bohmer, A. Hartmann, M. Havas, A. Jenkins, C. Kelly, S. J. Ormerod, T. Paces, R. Putz, B. O. Rosseland, D. W. Schindler and H. Segner -- 20. Does Reduction in SO[subscript 2] and NO[subscript x] Emissions Lead to Recovery? / M. Hauhs -- 21. The Influence of Catchment Management Processes in Forests on the Recovery in Fresh Waters / K. Kreutzer -- 22. Invertebrate Community Changes Caused by Reduced Acidification / G. G. Raddum and A. Fjellheim.
• 23. Predicting Recovery of Freshwater Ecosystems: Trout in Norwegian Lakes / B. J. Cosby, A. J. Bulger and R. F. Wright -- 24. Group Report: Are Chemical and Biological Changes Reversible? / N. Dise, W. Ahlf, G. Brahmer, B. J. Cosby, J. Fott, M. Hauhs, I. Juttner, K. Kreutzer, G. G. Raddum and R. F. Wright.

ISBN

0471942065 :

LCCN

93028725

OCLC

• 28587412
• ocm28587412

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries