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Subject(s)

• Water—Pollution [Browse]
• Lakes [Browse]
• Rivers [Browse]
• Paleolimnology [Browse]
• Sediments (Geology) [Browse]

Series

Key issues in environmental change [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• There is no substitute for water
• How long is long?
• Sediments : an ecosystem's memory
• Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock : collecting and dating sediment cores
• Reading the records stored in sediments : the present is a key to the past
• The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone : calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets
• Acidification : finding the 'smoking gun'
• Metals, technological development, and the environment
• Persistent organic pollutants industrially synthesized chemicals 'hopping' across the planet
• Mercury : 'the metal that slipped away'
• Eutrophication : the environmental consequences of over-fertilization
• Erosion : tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water
• Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations
• Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming : the problems of multiple stressors
• New problems, new challenges.

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ISBN

• 0340741465
• 0340691670 (pbk.) :

LCCN

2003278365

OCLC

41659800

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