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Algal Chemical Ecology

This is the first ever book devoted entirely to the chemical ecology of algae. Algae from both marine and freshwater habitats ...

Algal Toxins: Nature, Occurrence, Effect and Detection

This volume contains the lectures and seminars given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on “Sensor Systems for Biological ...

Ecology of Harmful Algae

Harmful algal blooms are one of the consequences of the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, particularly the process of eutrophication. ...

European Large Lakes Ecosystem changes and their ecological and socioeconomic impacts

Large lakes offer socio-economic benefits and can be used in many ways, and are often areas in which economic, cultural and ...

Eutrophication of Shallow Lakes with Special Reference to Lake Taihu

Eutrophication and algal blooms are worldwide environmental issues in lakes. The eutrophication process and formation mechanisms ...

Lake Taihu, China

There are many shallow lakes in the world. Many of them play an important socio-economic role as contributors to the drinking ...

Lake Verevi, Estonia - A Highly Stratified Hypertrophic Lake

The present book summarises investigations on Lake Verevi (surface 12.6 ha, mean depth 3.6 m). The seventeen articles in ...

Light Absorption in Sea Water

This book takes a fresh, holistic approach to the problems of light absorption and absorbers in seawaters, discussing the ...

Long-term Limnological Research and Monitoring at Crater Lake, Oregon

Crater Lake is located in the caldera of Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The lake has a surface area of ...

Marine Biodiversity

Understanding the functioning of Marine Ecosystems is the first step to measure and predict the influence of Man, and to ...

Modelling Community Structure in Freshwater Ecosystems

"The book presents approaches and methodologies for predicting the structure and diversity of key aquatic communities (namely ...

Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes

The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom ...

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

This volume reviews the current potential of Earth Observations, while devoting particular attention to applications dealing ...

Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment

Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They ...

Stream Ecology : Structure and function of running waters

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and ...

The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems

Animals are a major link between the water column (pelagic) and the bottom (benthic) habitats in most shallow systems. This ...

The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours

Urbanization has already reached unprecedented levels in the estuarine and coastal zone of the Asia Pacific region where ...

The Middle Parana River

This book details the recent advances in the knowledge of the most important segment of the Parana River, organized according ...

Toxicants in Aqueous Ecosystems

It is becoming increasingly realised that the oceans and rivers, in particular, are not unlimited reservoir into which waste ...

YOUMARES 8 – Oceans Across Boundaries: Learning from each other

This open access book presents the proceedings volume of the YOUMARES 8 conference, which took place in Kiel, Germany, in ...

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