Pollution of Lakes and Rivers —— A Paleoenvironmental Perspective

----- 湖泊与河流的污染

ISBN: 9781405159135 出版年：2009 页码：400 John P Smol Wiley

Preface to the second edition. About the author. 1 There is no substitute for water. 2 How long is long?. 3 Sediments: an ecosystem's memory. 4 Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock: collecting and dating sediment cores. 5 Reading the records stored in sediments: the present is a key to the past. 6 The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone: calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets. 7 Acidification: finding the "smoking gun". 8 Metals, technological development, and the environment. 9 Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized chemicals "hopping" across the planet. 10 Mercury - "the metal that slipped away". 11 Eutrophication: the environmental consequences of over-fertilization. 12 Erosion: tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water. 13 Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations. 14 Greenhouse gas emissions and a changing atmosphere: tracking the effects of climatic change on water resources. 15 Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming: the problems of multiple stressors. 16 New problems, new challenges. 17 Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our future. Glossary. References. Index