The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries

ISBN-13: 9781844076239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 348 str.

David Schindler

Opis

Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. This text offers real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making.

Spis treści

Preface * The Algal Bowl * Lakes and Humans * Lakes are Made of Water * How Lakes Breathe * Phosphorus, the Morning Star * The Environmental Physician * Detergents and Lakes * The Year of NTA * Understanding Eutrophication from Experiments in Small Lakes * Changes in the Eutrophication Problem Since the mid-20th Century * Using the Fossil Record to Interpret Past Eutrophication * Recovery from Eutrophication * Eutrophication of Estuaries * Signs or Solutions? * Bibliography, Index